verbing (it)

Peter Richardson prichard at LINFIELD.EDU
Tue Feb 27 18:37:33 UTC 2001


high-tail it / get it in gear ... Do these imply any sense of urgency?
It's too early to tell from the exchange so far. In the second example,
it's fairly clear what the pronoun replaces; does the pronoun replace the
same thing in the first?

Peter R.



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