get it
intj1
Used to encourage someone, especially to indicate that someone is doing something well.
get it
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, it.
- If you order the pizza, I'll go get it.
2
To understand something; to catch on; to fully appreciate its implications.
- If they aren't getting it, explain it a different way.
- I thought it was hilarious, but she didn't get it.
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- Hey, I get it — interpersonal diplomacy can be challenging. But we must at least try.
- The 1960s counterculture created a moral and spiritual vacuum that weakens the foundations of American society. The new elite of its adversary culture has disdained traditional morality— the stress on hard work, thrift, frugality, deferred gratification, the sanctity of marriage, fidelity, sexual self-control, and individual accountability. Those who still believe in these values are branded by the new elite as quaint, politically incorrect throwbacks who "just don't get it."1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
- Couldn’t you point at that shed a little sooner, Alex⁉ Oh! Excellent! Right on shedule for your latest mission. Get it? E-heh, “shedule”? Yes, unfortunately we get it, Jerry.2006 March 16, Bryan Thompson, “I Want My Mummy”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Andrea Taylor as Clover, Jess Harnell as Jerry Lewis, and Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
- And I really don't think you get it now No, I really don't think you get it now It's killing me, I admit it now Congratulations, you tore my heart out Congratulations2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
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Idiomatic To receive a negative thing: to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating; to get what's coming to one; to feel someone's wrath.
- After the way she spoke to him, she's really going to get it this time.
4
Slang To be struck (as an act of violence).
- If you don't put away that smug little smile I swear you'll get it right in the teeth.
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Euphemistic, Slang To have sex, especially referring to its possibility or eventuality.
- He could get it if he just had more confidence.
- How much have you got? / Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?1986, “West End Girls”, in Please, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
1 more example
- No one's counting but it's the fifteenth time she's gotten it this week.1999, Beth Boucher, “Elusive Thing”: