Get the business
verb phrase
To be treated roughly; be punished or rebuked: When they found out his record he got the business (1940s+)
see: the business
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Words from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; the advice Hamlet gives to Ophelia when he bids her live a life of celibacy.