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come and get it
Idioms and Phrases
Come and eat, the meal is ready, as in She called to the children, “Come and get it! ” Originating in the British armed forces, this term passed to other English-speaking armies in the late 1800s and was taken up as a dinner summons by various groups who shared meals in a camp, among them cowboys, lumbermen, and construction workers. It occasionally is used facetiously for other summons, especially for sexual favors. For example, “‘Come and get it,’ she said and going to the bed, she lay down ... and beckoned to him” (James Hadley Chase, You're Dead without Money , 1972).Example Sentences
Even when it's tight and the defence drops really deep, he can come and get it in the midfield and make those passes.
Kiley Reid’s new book Come and Get It explores the consumerist side of college life.
In ‘Come and Get It,’ author Kiley Reid unpacks the unsettling dynamics of college campus capitalism.
These days, Reid takes on her more adult fears in her novels — first her bestselling 2019 debut, “Such a Fun Age,” and now in its followup, “Come and Get It.”
“Come and Get It” is set in a dorm for transfers and scholarship students at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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