Talk:get it

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get it

rfd-sense X 2: Unlike 3two other senses in the entry these don't seem idiomatic to me. Get is sense 16 "understand". "It" is just anaphoric in the examples provided (Note the other anaphoric "it" which has the same referent>), as in any usage I can find in the two (redundant ?) senses:

1. idiom To understand, comprehend, or grasp.

   If they aren't getting it, explain it a different way.

2. (idiom) To realize or understand why a joke is funny.

   I thought it was hilarious, but she didn't get it.

There is already a sense line for a literal meaning, which should be replaced by {{&lit}} to allow for all possible senses of transitive "get". DCDuring TALK 17:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Right.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Okay. DAVilla 09:20, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks like they should be merged (e.g. "To understand, comprehend, or grasp something (esp. a joke)."), but it seems silly to remove them entirely from this page:

• These two senses are the ones that have a dedicated contraction: geddit? geddit?
• Two, even: geddid? geddid?
• Dedicated interwikis, too: fr:get it (for this sense only, the most useful one for someone looking up a dict).

And so, they're precisely the two ones you wanna delete? I just don't get it... 62.147.11.118 21:51, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 14:04, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

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get it

I don't understand sense 3 of get it:

3. (idiomatic) To possess a preferred outlook on a given issue or issues.

When it comes down to the important issues, our senator really gets it.

Her principal really just doesn't get it; that new policy won't prevent any violence.

The way I read these examples, "get it" just means "understand, comprehend, or grasp", which is sense 2 (under consideration for deletion).

If this is a valid different sense, could the examples be changed so that they are obviously different from the "understand" meaning? 86.160.216.161 02:04, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I wholly agree. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. I think you've got it. ~ Robin 14:48, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

That's got it

is the meaning of that's got it used in this book idiomatic? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:49, 25 November 2019 (UTC)