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get a life
Idioms and Phrases
Acquire some interests or relationships of one's own. For example, Stop sitting around and complainingāget a life . [ Slang ; late 1900s]Example Sentences
As we get to know the movieās wiry, chaotic young protagonist, engagingly portrayed by first-time actor Faveau, we expect heāll get a life education the hard way, as these stories usually offer up.
"They were like, 'But we can't spend 24 hours with you. So get real and get a life.' So they gently nudged me back into the films," he says.
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had been a television comedy writer on shows such as āGet a Lifeā and āThe Dana Carvey Show,ā with āBeing John Malkovichā his first produced film script.
Earlier this month, President Biden responded to Trump's claims by telling reporters at a press conference that Trump needs to "get a life."
āThen I was like, What are you doing? Like, get a life. This person, this is their private life. We donāt need to fā publicize this.ā
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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