get ink

English

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get ink (third-person singular simple present gets ink, present participle getting ink, simple past got ink, past participle (UK) got ink or (US) gotten ink)

(idiomatic) To receive publicity.
- 1980 November 17, Marie Brenner, “Trumping the Town”, in New York Magazine, page 27:
  Soon everybody, not just the Lefraks, was sneering. Donald Trump was getting more ink than Harry Helmsley, and there were no buildings to show for it, just bizarre stories with acronyms like CPC, UDC, MTA in them.
- 2014 February, John Mankiewicz, House of Cards, season 2, episode 6:
  [The amendment wi]ll get overturned. Big fuss for nothing. — It might get overturned, but it gets ink along the way.

receive publicity