getting his freak

[Rick Barr]

Here's another "Get your ___ on" example that hasn't been mentioned yet, and
that made it to a story that was published in 2007:

"I liked watching her. I almost demolished this apartment so we could both
get our perve on" (Nam Le, "Meeting Elise," *One Story* 93, June 30, 2007,
p. 1).

There's a fair number of Google hits for "Get your perv(e) on."

-- Rick


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Steve Kleinedler <stevekl at gmail.com>
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> > Several years ago I sent Jonathan Lighter a copy of an issue of The
> > Weekly Dig, a Boston publication, which used the "get your _____ on"
> > frame about 100 times in that issue, in a tongue-in-cheek comment on
> > the overuse of that phrase.
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> That's in the '05 discussion I linked to upthread:
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508C&L=ADS-L&P=R7451
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> Here's another usage from a recent episode of the Bravo reality show
> "The Real Housewives of New Jersey":
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> http://avagacser.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-are-back/
> Teresa’s oldest daughter, Gia, tries out as a Fashion Week model here.
> “When Gia gets her catwalk on, she gets it on,” vows Teresa.
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> --Ben Zimmer
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