to land the best seat
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
conseguir el mejor asiento
- We managed to land the best seat in the restaurant with a perfect view.
Examples
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He always tries to land the best seat at concerts by arriving early.
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Her strategy was to land the best seat near the stage for every show.
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She managed to land the best seat at the concert!
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Did you land the best seat for the game?
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He always tries to land the best seat at concerts by arriving early.
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We managed to land the best seat in the restaurant with a perfect view.
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Her strategy was to land the best seat near the stage for every show.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'land' here means 'to obtain/secure' and combines straightforwardly with the literal object 'the best seat' to yield 'get the most desirable seat'. This use of 'land' as 'secure' is a common verbal collocation (e.g., 'land a job') and the construction follows normal verb + object patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should infer the meaning.
Etymology
Land the best seat uses land in the old sense of 'to get' something, like when a fisherman lands a big fish. Imagine someone finally sitting in the best seat, so the phrase means 'to successfully obtain the most desirable seat'.
