girdle last; Sure I met no splea-footed baker, No hare did cross me, nor no bearded witch, Nor other ominous sign
1614. Terence in English. C. What doth shee keepe house alreadie? D. Alreadie. C. O good God!; we rose on the right side to-day.
1647. Beaumont and Fletcher, i. Women Pleased. You rose o' your right side.
1890. Globe, 15 May, p. 2, col. 2. Some of them had—if we may employ such a vulgar expression—got out of bed on the wrong side.
To get out (or Round), verb. phr. (racing).—To back a horse against which one has previously laid; to Hedge (q.v.).
1884. Hawley Smart, From Post to Finish, p. 318. He had an idea Johnson was this time cleverly working a very well authorised commission, and that he personally had taken more than one opportunity of what is termed getting out.
To get set, verb. phr. (cricketing).—1. To warm to one's work at the wicket, and collar the bowling; to get one's eye well in.
To get there, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To attain one's object; to be successful; to make one's jack (q.v.); to get there with both feet = to be very successful.
1887. Francis, Saddle and Mocassin. He said as he'd been gambling, and was two hundred dollars ahead of the town. He got there with both feet at starting.
1888. New York Herald, 29 July. Although not a delegate he got there all the same.
2. (common).—To get drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
3. (venery).—To enjoy the sexual favour.
To get through, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To pass an examination; to accomplish.
1853. Bradley, Verd. Green, II. ch. xii. So you see, Giglamps, I'm safe to get through.
To get up and dust, verb. phr. (American).—To depart hastily. For synonyms, see Skedaddle and Amputate.
To get up behind (or get behind) a man, verb. phr. (common).—To endorse or back a bill.
1880. Life in a Debtor's Prison, p. 87. In other cases he figured as the drawer, or simply as endorser. This, Mr. Whipper described as getting up behind.
To get up the mail, verb. phr. (thieves').—To find money (as counsels' fees, etc.) for defence.
1889. Clarkson and Richardson, Police, 322, s.v.
[Get enters into many other combinations. See back teeth; bag or sack; bead; beans; beat; big bird and goose; big head; billet; bit; boat; bolt; books; bulge; bullet; bull's feather; crocketts; dander and monkey; dark; drop; eye; flannels; flint; game; grand bounce; gravel-rash; grind; grindstone; hand; hang; hat; head; hip or hop; home; horn; hot; jack; keen; length of ones foot; measure; mitten; needle; religion; rise; run; scot, swot, or scrape; set; shut of; silk; snuff; straight; sun; ticket of leave; wool; wrong box.]
Getaway, subs. (American
thieves').—A locomotive or train;
a puffer (q.v.).
Getter. A sure getter, subs.
phr. (Scots).—A procreant male
with a great capacity for fertilization.
