Get an attitude
verb phrase
To become hostile and resentful: At first I got an attitude about it. I thought it had to do with race (1960s+ Black)
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- Get an in with
Also, have an in with. Acquire (or have) influence with someone in authority. For example, The only way they’ll allow us to film the play is if we get an in with the director, or We should have no problem, since Dad has an in with the inspector. This idiom employs the noun in the […]
- Get another guess
see: have another guess
- Get another kick at the cat
verb phrase To have another chance: an attorney could lose one trial strategy, then present a new one to ”get another kick at the cat” (1980s+)
- Get a rise out of someone
verb phrase To get a response from someone, esp a warm or angry one: His limp joke got a rise and some projectiles out of the crowd [1886+; fr the rising, the appearance, of a fish or other quarry]