to get it on
125
9.3
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ɪt ɑn/
- Offensive
:
echar un polvo (vulgar)
- So, I hear you two are getting it on.
When are they finally going to, as we say, get a room or get it on?
- When are they finally going to, as we say, get a room or get it on?
- OK, Well, that's the act of, you know, not to put too fine a point on it, getting it on and generating a child, right?
- CP if do you break your abstinence in Fight Night like like we're going to watch you fight after that later on will you and will you get it on?
Examples
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You really got it on with Jessie.
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We can even get it on if you want to, I won't make any kind of fuss.
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We're getting it on in the next scene.
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You were gonna ditch her so you could get it on?
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We'd get it on for days.
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We'd been getting it on for a while, and we came back one night.
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But you and I can still get it on, right now, just like two young, virile people.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you're looking to get it on, these seats go all the way back.
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Let's get it on.
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Are we about to get it on?
Synonyms
∞
9.9
To have sex with someone
∞
3.0
To touch each other's private parts for physical pleasure
999
9.8
To have sex with someone
698
8.6
To have sex with another person
652
7.4
To have sex with someone
296
5.3
Have sex with someone you love or care about
205
9.9
To have sex with someone, said as a rude word
130
8.1
To kiss and touch someone in a sexual way
122
9.9
To have sex with someone
95
9.9
To have sex with someone, usually in a short, casual way
69
7.4
Have sex with another person, often when not married
58
9.9
To have sex with someone, used as a rude word
23
8.1
To have sex with someone
16
7.9
Have sex with someone
12
9.0
To have sex with someone
6
9.1
To have sex with someone
3
9.9
To try to have sex with someone in a rude or selfish way
2
9.9
To have sex with someone
2
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
To have sex with someone, used in informal British English
1
9.9
To have sex with someone
1
9.9
Have sex with someone for fun without feelings
To have sex with someone
To have sex briefly in a casual way
Surface Forms
Morphology
get + it + on
There is a recognizable connection between 'get' + 'on' (to begin or become engaged) and the MWE meaning, but the inserted pronoun 'it' and the idiomatic nuance of energetic involvement are not fully compositional. The phrase is colloquial and ambiguous (it also has a sexual sense), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would only partially infer the intended meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Get it on may come from the image of a switch being turned on to make something active; to get something on is to start it. One popular story says this image was used for sexual activity, so the phrase came to mean 'to have sex'.