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Get it   /gɛt ɪt/   Listen
Get it

verb
1.
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.  Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig.
2.
Receive punishment.



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"Get it" Quotes from Famous Books



... extend cordial greetings to the 84th Congress. We shall have much to do together; I am sure that we shall get it done—and, that we shall do it ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower • Dwight D. Eisenhower

... "If you want it, get it," said Albert emphatically. "I will let you have twenty dollars from this month's pay, and the balance ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous

... "Get it, Thad," said Maurice, in a low tone, not wishing to take his eye off the trio of desperadoes for a moment, not knowing what they might attempt, for if ever he had seen jailbirds loose it was ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne

... tramp is of the same hopeless order, and has the same injured conviction on him that you were born to whatever you possess, and never did anything to get it: but he is of a less audacious disposition. He will stop before your gate, and say to his female companion with an air of constitutional humility and propitiation—to edify any one who may be within hearing behind a blind or a bush—'This ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... that it was restful to watch her work, and people were consequently so much the more grateful for everything she did for them. How often had the Farmer complained about the fact that, when the salt was wanted, some one always had to rise from the table to get it! But now Amrei herself set the table, and she took care to put the salt-cellar on immediately after the cloth was spread. When the Farmer praised Amrei for this, his ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various


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