Talk:get down

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Perhaps we should have an entry at get down, but not including any of the current "content." --Connel MacKenzie 21:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that was from a while ago. I don't know which if any of those senses are idiomatic. Readers understand that there are potentially also literal senses for any phrases they encounter, correct? If any are kept, they should be listed under ===Verb===. DAVilla 23:42, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The senses listed are all content that (if anywhere) belong at get? --Connel MacKenzie 21:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Severely trimmed. Please reassess. DAVilla 19:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Very nice. I guess this should have been an "RFC" after all. --Connel MacKenzie 17:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

(transitive) To concentrate; attend. To get down to the matter at hand.

It's not transitive, rather

get down to transitive verb 
to start concentrating seriously on something or on getting something done 
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 18:13, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

@GaylordFancypants: you indicated that this sense was transitive in this edit. Do you agree that if it is, then the verb is not "get down"? --Chealer (talk) 13:46, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

I removed the transitive qualifier for that sense. --Chealer (talk) 15:54, 17 December 2023 (UTC)