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get into the act
Idioms and Phrases
Also, get in the act . Become involved in some activity or venture, as in Everybody wants to get into the act on this offer , or I'm sure his agent plans to get in the act and start negotiations . This expression alludes to inserting oneself into a performance. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
If you’ve seen the film, now could be the time to get into the act.
Under Trump, the surveillance state will get into the act even more intimately than it is now.
For the uninitiated, chopping wood and stomping on roses are how fans get into the act of beating Portland, also known as “Rose City.”
Qatar, which ranks 19th in oil exports and also shares the world’s largest underwater natural-gas field with Iran, wanted to get into the act, too.
They all want to get into the act, so percussionist Jonny Allen’s virtuosic Xenakis percussion solo was danced by Julia Eichten.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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