get it in ya

English

Phrase

get it in ya

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Used to urge someone to eat or drink something, often enthusiastically or without hesitation.
    • 1958, Mildred Savage, chapter 10, in Parrish, Simon and Schuster, page 122:
      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.
    • 2012, Ted Reader, Beerlicious: the art of grillin' & chillin', Volume I, McClelland and Stewart, page 222:
      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!
    • 2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook‎[1], Dundurn, →ISBN:
      "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
      "It's better hot." she said.

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