AT IT Definition & Meaning

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Vigorously pursuing an activity, especially a fight, but also sex or some other activity. For example, Whenever they play bridge they really go at it (fight), or The new job keeps Tom at it day and night (works hard), or In the spring the dogs are always at it (sex). Shakespeare used this seemingly modern idiom for “fighting” in Troilus and Cressida (5:3): “They are at it, hark!” [Late 1500s]

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"We have to run quickly towards this," a government source says – and the chancellor is looking at it this weekend.

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“The name of the game is attention. Trump and Musk are very good at it,” Democratic strategist Mike Nellis said on X. “Democrats have struggled to take these kinds of risks to our own peril—but Cory is paving the way forward.”

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"We knew that if we kept at it the results would start turning," he says.

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"I think that we're in a good place. We're going to keep on working at it," he said.

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“And I just look at it as I gotta come in locked in every day and just try to make the most out of every day, be the best version of myself.”

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