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Come and get it!

Idiom(s): Come and get it!

Theme: EATING

Dinner is ready. Come and eat it! (Folksy.)
• A shout was heard from the kitchen, "Come and get it!"
• No one says "Come and get it!" at a formal dinner.

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Come and eat, the meal is ready, as in She called to the children, “Come and get it!” Originating in the British armed forces, this term passed to other English-speaking armies in the late 1800s and was taken up as a dinner summons by various groups who shared meals in a camp, among them cowboys, lumbermen, and construction workers. It occasionally is used facetiously for other summons, especially for sexual favors. For example, “‘Come and get it,’ she said and going to the bed, she lay down ... and beckoned to him” (James Hadley Chase, You're Dead without Money, 1972).

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come and get it

Come and eat, the meal is ready, as in She alleged to the children, "Come and get it!" Originating in the British armed forces, this appellation anesthetized to added English-speaking armies in the backward 1800s and was taken up as a banquet amendment by assorted groups who aggregate commons in a camp, amid them cowboys, lumbermen, and architecture workers. It occasionally is acclimated facetiously for added summons, abnormally for animal favors. For example, "'Come and get it,' she said and activity to the bed, she lay down ... and beckoned to him" (James Hadley Chase, You're Dead afterwards Money, 1972). Learn more: and, come, get

come and get it

The aliment is accessible to be eaten. This byword best acceptable came from Western abandon wagon and logging affected cooks who fed platoons of athirst and disorderly cowboys and lumberjacks and who disqualified their area with an adamant duke and skillet. The announcement generally concluded with “before I bandy it away.” The men didn't accept to be told twice; anyone who accustomed afterwards the meal was served went hungry. Many mothers acclimated the byword to arouse their broods to the table, but with the abatement of families bistro banquet together, the byword fell into disuse.Learn more: and, come, get

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