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Definition of Get it
1. Verb. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty. "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
Generic synonyms: Apprehend, Compass, Comprehend, Dig, Get The Picture, Grasp, Grok, Savvy
2. Verb. Receive punishment. "You are going to get it!"
Definition of Get it
1. Verb. (&lit get it) ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To get what's coming to one: to feel someone's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get It
Literary usage of Get it
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"heavy burden : but get it off myself I cannot; nor is there any man in our country
that can take it off my shoulders; therefore am I going this way, ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"They'll both get it on the vital spot. Wells rubbed himself and said in a crying
voice: — Please, sir, let me off! Athy grinned and turned up the sleeves of ..."
3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"I have used marsh-mallow to a great extent, and it has done a great deal of good,
provided you can get it just at the right time to turn under. ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"It is not within the power of man to get it in a wholesale way because if it ...
The man who secures it can get it in large quantities by growing the great ..."
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