to get a tuit
- idiom
- Informal
:
posponer
- She keeps putting off her emails, joking that she'll reply when she gets a tuit.
Examples
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I've been meaning to clean out the garage, but I just haven't gotten a tuit yet.
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I need to get a tuit on my homework.
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He said he'd finish the repairs when he got a tuit.
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He always says he'll get a tuit for cleaning the garage.
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He said he'd finish the repairs when he got a tuit.
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I've been meaning to clean out the garage, but I just haven't gotten a tuit yet.
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She keeps putting off her emails, joking that she'll reply when she gets a tuit.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To stay in one place or delay action until something happens
562
1.4
To make something happen later than planned
166
4.3
To delay doing something on purpose to get more time
113
2.9
Delay something until a later time
78
3.8
To wait before doing something
37
4.2
To wait before doing something
16
3.5
Wait before doing something because you feel unsure
15
5.5
To delay something until a later time
6
4.8
To delay doing something to get more time
To wait until tomorrow to do something instead of doing it now
Antonyms
How Soon
- Informal
234
3.4
- Informal
101
4.1
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
get + a + tuit
The expression is a jokey pun on 'get to it' where 'tuit' is not a real lexical item, so the idiomatic meaning 'postpone doing something' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'get' + 'a'. Understanding it depends on recognizing the wordplay and cultural usage rather than standard compositional meaning, so an average B1 learner who only knows the parts would not reliably infer the intended sense.
Etymology
The phrase get a tuit may come from a joke on the words 'get to it'. People would draw a small round token marked tuit or pin a paper tuit on the wall and say they would do the job when they finally got a tuit, so the phrase means 'put off' or 'do it someday'.