get outside
English
editVerb
editget outside (third-person singular simple present gets outside, present participle getting outside, simple past got outside, past participle (UK) got outside or (US) gotten outside)
- (informal, transitive) To consume (eat or drink).
- 1912, Edgar Jepson, The Man with the Black Feather (translation of Gaston Leroux), Small, Maynard, page 306 [1]:
- All this troop had come from the Palais de Justice; and when it reached the Buci Cross-roads, you dismounted, because you were thirsty, and wished before the ceremony to get outside a pint at the tavern kept by the Smacker.
- 1954, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 10, in Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Scribner, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 97–98:
- The sunset swayed before my eyes as if it were doing the shimmy, and a bird close by which was getting outside its evening worm looked for an instant like two birds, both flickering.
- 1912, Edgar Jepson, The Man with the Black Feather (translation of Gaston Leroux), Small, Maynard, page 306 [1]:
- (chiefly intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, outside.
- I need to get outside. I've been cooped up for days.