get busy
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Verb
get busy (third-person singular simple present gets busy, present participle getting busy, simple past got busy, past participle (UK) got busy or (US) gotten busy)
- (idiomatic) Start working, usually in opposition to idleness.
- Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework.
- (idiomatic) Have sex
- The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.
- 2007, Half Life 2 Episode Two, (video game):
- Alyx Vance: Did Dr. Kleiner just say to everyone that they should get busy?
- August 22, 2019 - Schlock Mercenary
- Thurl: Are you busy?
Alexia: Really? The days pass like decades in here, Thurl. We won't be busy until that worldship decides to talk back to us.
Thurl: And yet, you have been…
Alexia: Thurl. If you say "getting busy" I will punch you so hard you'll have to spawn child processes just to feel all the pain.
- Thurl: Are you busy?