Get me a glass of water quickly. What do we mean by the word, get? By get, we mean we
are asking for something or we are receiving something but do you know that get can have
a different meaning other than its literal meaning? Yes, it can, keep watching this lesson
with me, Michelle to find out the different meanings for our interesting get.
Let’s look at the first expression that we have. Get real, obviously, this expression
will be used for a person who is not so realistic or maybe who is imagining a lot of things,
which are not true. So, I have this friend who is a bit short and she wants to be a model.
She wants to win a beauty pageant and I told her, get real. It’s not possible for you
coz you need to be at least 5'8" to be a model or to win a beauty pageant. So she's just
imagining things in her head. So obviously as you must have guessed, I cannot say this
statement to someone I've met for the first time coz it's slightly rude. So please refrain
from using it with strangers and you can use it freely with your friends. So for someone
who is being too imaginative?
Alright, let's look at the next one, get a life. This has a similar meaning like get
real. Nobody’s dead, it's not like you're telling a dead person to get a life coz that
is just not possible. So it has an idiomatic meaning which means a hidden meaning that
you need to understand. So get a life is a stronger statement and a bit ruder than get
real. This would be used for a person who is very boring. Possibly a person who wants
to spend their Saturday night cleaning the house. That’s so boring, isn’t it? And
I am sure if you have a friend like that, you would want them to go out and do something
exciting. So I have a friend, Hannah and I spoke to her last weekend. It was Saturday
evening and I said, "What are you doing this evening?" she said, "I'm cleaning the house."
I told her, get a life. Go out, have fun. This means that do something interesting and
you usually use this for a person who is very boring or who is acting boring. To do something
exciting.
There are many more expressions that you can have with get. You can express that you want
someone to do something. Not only that, you can also express your anger when you ask someone
to get lost. Do you think they are gonna get lost and never see you again? Possibly that's
not gonna happen but again you can use this with your friend when you want to express
your anger and you are really irritated. So maybe at the end of an argument with your
friend. It could be a small argument but you can use this phrase, get lost as long as you
are sure they will not be offended coz I know people who get really offended by the use
of get lost. If someone tells me that, I'd be really offended. So be careful with the
use of this phrase. You use it when you are very angry
and here you are asking that person to never show their face again but you don't mean it
literally, it's just for the moment.
Let’s look at the next phrase that we have. Get a move on. So you're asking someone to
move on which means to increase their speed. Who would you ask to increase their speed?
Naturally, someone who is very slow. So get a move on, in other words, means hurry up.
Hurry up, has it ever happened that you asked your husband to clean the house with you and
he's just lazing and doodling around. He’s just not moving. You could tell him, get a
move on, we don't have all day to clean the house.
Let's look at the next phrase. Oh before that, let's also look at this phrase. Get a move
on and get the lead out. What do I mean by, get the lead out? It has a similar meaning
like get a move on but again it's a stronger term. So this could be used when you are really
irritated and someone is just not you know hurrying up. For example, you are in a meeting
or yeah in a meeting and you have this colleague who is really slow when they speak. He’s
a very slow talker, although he's a good friend as well. So this person is doing a presentation
and he's just going on and on and on and on and he's not even coming to the point. So
you could tell him, come on Mike get the lead out and tell us what you need to say. Get
to the point. So this also means, hurry up but when you are really impatient and when
you are very irritated. When you are very irritated.
Let’s also talk about the origin of this phrase, get the lead out. As you've heard,
lead is a metal and it's the heaviest metal for those of you don't know and so you are
asking someone to get that heaviest metal off so that they can increase their speed.
Sometimes you'll also use it like get the lead out of your pants kids and get going.
So you can also use it in that way.
Let’s look at the next one that we have. Get to the point. So as I told you, if you
have a friend like Mike like my friend Mike who's a slow talker and who just can't get
the lead out, you could tell him, get to the, point because he's been beating around the
bush. He’s not talking about what he must talk. so he's given a lot of small talks and
he's talking about a lot of unimportant things but he’s not getting to the point which
means get to the main topic of your conversation. Get to the main topic. So here we have get
to the point for you. For me to get to the point, let’s look at the next phrase, get
with it.so, this phrase has a similar meaning like get real or get a life. Get with it means
just get with the attitude. It’s like reprimanding someone which means that you're being angry
and you're telling someone with some anger to change their attitude. So if someone tells
you that you shouldn't go out at night because you’re a girl, you might tell him or her,
get with it just get done with your attitude. Gone are the days when women couldn’t go
out because it's late at night. If you can handle yourself at night and if you can manage
your own safety, it's perfectly okay. So get with it means to change your attitude
and definitely, it is the harsher term than get real or get a life.
So these are some interesting phrases with get. I'm going to do a quick revision for
you so that you don't forget these expressions.
the first one, get real is used for someone who is being too imaginative and if they are
5 feet tall and they want to win a beauty pageant then I'm sorry, you need to get real.
Maybe you want to try some other field. Maybe you are talented and you are better at something
else.
The second one, get a life which means to do something exciting and not laze around
and just be bored on a weekend. The third one, get lost, that's really angry and very
offensive, very, very rude, be careful with its use.
Get a move on means hurry up. Get the lead out, the heavy metal out and start doing your
work quickly. Get to the point means stop beating around the bush, stop your small talks
and talk about the most important topic of your conversation and the last one, to get
with it means to change your attitude and to stop thinking in a particular way.
Thank you so much for staying with me. I had a great time teaching you. Please come back
for more lessons with me, bye-bye.