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get physical
Idioms and Phrases
Make physical contact, either forcefully or sexually. For example, Stop pushing—there's no need to get physical , or Thirteen is too young to get physical in that way . [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Bonds told Morgan he saw Combs get violent with women “around four or five times” during his tenure and added, “I’ve seen him get physical ... grab ‘em up.”
“We knew they were going to try to come out in the third quarter and get physical with us and affect us a little bit,” Wizards interim coach Brian Keefe said.
Inside Regen Projects, a building also designed by Maltzan, the ties between connecting paths get physical.
“And so from that perspective, the desire to get physical products immediately makes sense and would explain interest in brick-and-mortar.”
When the argument escalated — and with King repeatedly saying “I stand on business” — the exchange appeared to get physical in the suite.
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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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