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get it in ya en · X

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial) Used to urge someone to eat or drink something, often enthusiastically or without hesitation.
    • Top with a little extra Orgasmic Onion Mayo and the top bun finishes it off. Give it a gentle squish and get it in ya! 2012, Ted Reader, Beerlicious: the art of grillin' & chillin', Volume I, McClelland and Stewart, page 222:
    • Parrish gave him two dollars. “Go on, now—get it in ya.” The whisky tasted terrible, burned his mouth and his stomach, and he bent over, hiding his face on his knees, seeing before his eyes a picture of Raike’s face and his shoulders hunched like a bull, and it sickened him. 1958, Mildred Savage, chapter 10, in Parrish, Simon and Schuster, page 122:
    • "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then." "It's better hot." she said. 2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook, Dundurn, →ISBN:

Synonyms

bon appétit · eat up · drink up