getting any
English edit
Verb edit
- (euphemistic, chiefly in the negative) Having sex (habitually, not currently).
- He's just grumpy because he's not getting any.
- Are you getting any?
- 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 15:
- These were the questions boys asked other boys at my school (a school which contained only boys): ‘Are you getting any?’; ‘Does she let you have any?’; ‘How much does she let you have?’ and so on.
- 1997, Marga Gomez, Hung Like a Fly (comedy album):
- When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, "oh, another week has gone by." ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.
Usage notes edit
- Other forms of the construction "to get any" can be found, though much less commonly.