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Today's episode is about idioms and expressions with the verb to get. Why? Because they're useful, fun, and practical. Plus, I use these a lot and I don't even realize. So let's get to it. Hey, there's one. Alright, let's go. You are listening to episode 107 of English with Dane. Hit it. I've compiled a list, so let's go. The first one, get with it. Emphasis on the word with. So there are actually a few different meanings, so let's talk about the two that are most frequently used.
If you tell someone to get with it, you are telling them to modernize their attitude and kind of learn more about the current ways of the world to understand modern times. Let's say my friend Evan, shout out to Evan, doesn't know how to share something from Instagram on WhatsApp. In this situation, I would gladly help him first and then say, hey man, you need to get with it. Or if he wears something that's like super 2004, I would also say get with it.
As in get with the times, which I'm assuming is why we say get with it. Hmm, I don't know. You can also tell someone to get with it in the sense that you want them to hurry up and get busy. So if you have a lot of work to do, you need to get with it. Similar to get to it, but that means to start doing something. I say it quite a bit, lo digo bastante, on this show. Sometimes to start the show right before the intro song. Let's move on to the next one. Get it together.
If you tell someone to get it together, you are telling them to begin to live in a good and sensible way. To stop being confused, foolish, etc. To take positive action in your life, basically. Maybe it comes from get your act together. And we just say it sometimes instead of act. Not sure. If you find out, let me know. If you're talking to a friend that you're comfortable with, you might say get your shit together. Here's an example of this last option from one of my favorite shows.
Well then get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit, so it's together.
That's from Rick and Morty, by the way. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Moving on. To get the hang of something. Hang as in colgar. H A N G. To get the hang of something means to learn the skills that are needed to do something. Cogerle truquillo algo in Spanish. Let's say it's your first time using chopsticks. You learn how to hold the chopsticks and how to bite down on the piece of sushi or whatever.
At first you're bad at it, and then after a few minutes, you start to get the hang of it, and now you can pick up a piece fairly well. Next up is to get a kick out of something. To get a kick out of something means to feel amusement, delight, or excitement about something or someone. So Sialgo te divierte, you get a kick out of it. This one maybe isn't as common, but you'll hear it from time to time. I just wanted an excuse to play this.
I get a kick out of you.
This next one is a good one. To get someone's drift. First, drift is spelled D-R-I-F-T. And in this case, it means the general intention or meaning. If you get someone's drift, you understand what they're trying to say. In this case, we have get as entender, as in to get a joke, entender una broma. You can also say catch instead of get with this one, like in this clip from Futurama.
Because tomorrow I will be depositing my jelly in the cloacal vents of a female if you catch my drift.
For this example, we're going with Terminator 2 because it rocks. Next, we have to get into something. This one means to become interested in an activity or subject. If you're my age, 32, your friends will probably say stuff like, you know what I'm really getting into? Paddle. You should come play one day. Or, hey, I've been really getting into craft beer, and stuff like that. Those are actually things I would say, maybe, so I'm not hating, the voice was just for fun.
Over the course of the lockdown, I got more and more into video games. Another one, what are you into, is a more casual way of asking someone what their interests are. What music are you into? Sounds better than what music do you like, I think. You can use it to talk about attraction too. She told me her friend is into you, means that her friend likes you in a romantic way, let's say. Here's Miranda from Sex in the City coming to the realization that a guy just doesn't like her that much.
Wow, he's just not that intimate.
He's just not that into me.
Okay, last one. To get back at someone. Let's end with some revenge vibes. To get back at someone means devolver alien, to retaliate. The official definition is to do something unpleasant, desagradable, to someone who has treated you badly or unfairly, injustamente. She got back at her for spreading rumors about her, for example.
Don't confuse this with to get back to someone, which means to talk to someone again, usually on the phone in order to give them some information or because you were not able to speak to them before. The classic, hey, I can't talk right now, I'll get back to you later. But they never do. So to get back at someone means to retaliate, and to get back to someone means to talk to them later. Speaking of talking to people later, that's it for today's episode of English with Dane.
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Or put it in the shit museum. I don't care what you do. You just gotta get it together.