get it

phrase

: to receive a scolding or punishment

Examples of get it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Marketplace plans — for those who buy their own insurance rather than get it from an employer or the government — generally allow 60 days. — Stephanie O'Neill, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026

Theater Alliance, known for staging socially conscious plays, and In Series, which breaks down the rigid traditions of opera, will trade off shows in the black box (alternating who gets it for holidays, for example). — Rudi Greenberg, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

Don’t take the lender’s word for anything; get it all in writing. — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026

His aim is to use Benedict — who resigned as pope in 2013 and died in seclusion in the Vatican in 2022 — as the one Catholic leader who understood the imminent threat of the Antichrist and the end times, the one Catholic who got it right. — David Gibson, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1805, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for get it

• acquit
• admit
• armpit
• backlit
• befit
• cockpit
• commit
• dalit
• dendrite
• emit
• illite
• misfit