[Ads-l] to (have) got this

[Jonathan Lighter]

I began noticing this about ten years ago. FWIW.

JL

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A quick glance at Wiktionary, the English Oxford Living Languages and the
> HDAS doesn’t yield this expression. It means “will handle this
> challenge/problem right now."
>
> With the third person plural and the ass pronouns, I think the ’s of
> “have” is obligatory, though I’m probably wrong:
>
> s/he’s got this
> my ass/your ass, etc. ’s got this
>
> With the other persons, I think “have” is skipped:
> I/you/we/you guys/they got this
>
> The OLL does have, under “get”:
> Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain.
>
> ‘I need all the sleep I can get’
> ‘he got a teaching job in California’
>
> Both Wiktionary and OLL (the latter cited here) have:
> Respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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