get a life in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets a life",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting a life",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got a life",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got a life",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten a life",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
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      ]
    }
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      },
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          "ref": "1995 September 14, Joseph Berger, “Disgraced, Ex-Lawman In Rockland Avoids Jail”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-08-23",
          "text": "\"He's really broken. Hopefully he'll be able to find work somewhere and get a life.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 25, Lev Grossman, “Power To The People: Harriet Klausner, The Constant Critic”, in Time, retrieved 2016-08-23",
          "text": "\"Harriet, please get a life,\" someone begged her on a message board, \"and leave us poor Amazon customers alone.\"",
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        }
      ],
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        "To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence."
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive, derogatory) To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence."
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
          "word": "做些讓生活更有意義的事"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zuò xiē ràng shēnghuó gèng yǒu yìyì de shì",
          "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
          "word": "做些让生活更有意义的事"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
          "word": "hankkia elämä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
          "word": "va t’acheter une vie!"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
          "word": "bir hayatın olsun!"
        }
      ],
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        "Get a life (idiom)"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get a life"
}

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    {
      "form": "gets a life",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting a life",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got a life",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got a life",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten a life",
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        "US",
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        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "1995 September 14, Joseph Berger, “Disgraced, Ex-Lawman In Rockland Avoids Jail”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-08-23",
          "text": "\"He's really broken. Hopefully he'll be able to find work somewhere and get a life.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 25, Lev Grossman, “Power To The People: Harriet Klausner, The Constant Critic”, in Time, retrieved 2016-08-23",
          "text": "\"Harriet, please get a life,\" someone begged her on a message board, \"and leave us poor Amazon customers alone.\"",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence."
      ],
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          "interesting",
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        [
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        ],
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          "existence",
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive, derogatory) To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "idiomatic",
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
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      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
      "word": "做些讓生活更有意義的事"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuò xiē ràng shēnghuó gèng yǒu yìyì de shì",
      "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
      "word": "做些让生活更有意义的事"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
      "word": "hankkia elämä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
      "word": "va t’acheter une vie!"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to have a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence",
      "word": "bir hayatın olsun!"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get a life"
}

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"get a life" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms