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Early misc

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I left what's at the beginning of the page, although I don't think it says a lot...

How does it mean sexual intercourse???

The only thing I can think of is a phrase like this:

Let's do it.

But it's simply a pronoun replacing a noun. It doesn't mean all of a sudden it gets that meaning.

— This unsigned comment was added by Polyglot (talkcontribs) at 22:09, 19 May 2003 (UTC).Reply

I've removed the first part of the article. The number of meanings might as well be a number pulled out of the air like "Heinz 57 varieties". That never really represented 57 varieties, but it sounded good so the company adopted it as a slogan. "It" as sexual intercourse i8s also meaningless. This usage is really as a general purpose euphemism for anything that may be slightly naughty or forbidden. Eclecticology 01:57 May 20, 2003 (UTC)!

It as noun

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In my schooldays, we played a game called "it", which is tag. --Umbrella 08:10, 12 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

İngiliscə — Azərbaycanca?

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Is there anything useful that could be gleaned from this revision by an anonymous user?  (u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 15:06, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

He’s saying that o is an Azeri pronoun for he/she/it/that, and bu is an Azeri pronoun for this/it. —Stephen 16:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
So that information belongs in a translation section, oui?  (u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 16:55, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Bien sûr. And əvəzlik means pronoun. —Stephen 17:51, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Is that what was meant?  (u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 18:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
Azeri is highly inflected, so there are limited uses for nominative singular o. —Stephen 18:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
OK. Please check əvəzlik, too. Thanks.  (u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 19:28, 11 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

It girl

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It girl should be added to derived terms.--TonyTheTiger 00:46, 19 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

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"(British) IT (used by schoolchildren). What have we got next? Art, then it." A joke? Equinox 18:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

I'd just remove it to be honest. Perhaps {{form of|nonstandard form of|IT}}, but why even bother? Mglovesfun (talk) 12:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

RFV failed, sense removed. —RuakhTALK 21:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

be it

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What meaning is used in They had many national flags but the flag we’re banning was never it --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:51, 29 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

"It" = "the national flag". Looks like sense 1 to me. —Granger (talk · contribs) 00:34, 30 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Mx. Granger: it = one of them? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:31, 30 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

this is it

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IT: In referring to a critical event that has finally happened or is about to happen:
Suddenly the lights went out, and we thought, this is it!
Random House Learner's Dictionary 

--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:54, 6 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Interesting. I don't think this is idiomatic to the phrase this is it. One can also say, for instance, that'll be it. Could be a sense we're missing. It might be that sense 7 is a special case or variation of this sense. —Granger (talk · contribs) 03:18, 7 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

have a lean time of it

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What meaning is used in have a lean time of it ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:10, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Compare have an easy time of it, and several similar phrases listed at time#Related terms. Maybe there's a fixed structure have a(n) ______ time of it. Not sure how we should cover that. —Granger (talk · contribs) 16:21, 4 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
There's also bare "have a time of it" ("he's really having a time of it"). - -sche (discuss) 00:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

An animal that has been neutered

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The cat is an it. --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:20, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is roughly noun sense 1, "One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being." (That, in turn, has some overlap with the derogatory "transgender" pronoun sense. The wording of both could be improved: the pronoun to add some of the explanation the noun sense has, and the noun to perhaps add something like "depersonalized"...) - -sche (discuss) 00:46, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

What time does it say on that clock?

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What meaning is used in What time does it say on that clock? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:20, 19 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure. I would guess it's sense 4 (a dummy pronoun). —Granger (talk · contribs) 00:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Use for a generic human referent

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  • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, chapter 5:
    All these things inclined her, step by step, to submit to the new discovery, whether Queen Victoria's or another's, that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life, whom it supports, by whom it is supported, till death them do part.

Is this usage covered by any of the senses currently in the article? I don't think it is. —Granger (talk · contribs) 22:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen that before (excluding one person on Reddit who wanted their pronoun to be "it", and kicked off a big genderstorm). But we already have human senses for specific contexts (the baby or child; the telephone call; etc.) so maybe we should just broaden it and say it can be human but isn't normal. Equinox 22:52, 2 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

"it" in tag only?

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Is saying "you're it" and the like specifically restricted to the game of tag? Or does it also work for other games? Like hide and seek for example. Or say that football/soccer game where one player is in the middle and has to touch the ball. 90.186.72.65 10:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)Reply