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aiden
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:43 pm    Post subject: get on down Reply with quote

What does that mean? I've found in a lot of dictionaries but can't
find the real answer to it. I've heard a lot of phrases like:

get on down to it...
get on down the road...

etc.

hope someone can help me with the answer.

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nycram
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:50 pm    Post subject: Re: get on down Reply with quote

In article <ca2e7800.0409282343.40315667@posting.google.com>,
tsangky@hotmail.com says...
Quote:
What does that mean? I've found in a lot of dictionaries but can't
find the real answer to it. I've heard a lot of phrases like:

get on down to it...
get on down the road...

etc.

hope someone can help me with the answer.

Proceed.


Get on == Continue

Get down == attack the task at hand

Gary
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Django Cat
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:53 am    Post subject: Re: get on down Reply with quote

On 29 Sep 2004 00:43:15 -0700, tsangky@hotmail.com (aiden) wrote:

Quote:
What does that mean? I've found in a lot of dictionaries but can't
find the real answer to it. I've heard a lot of phrases like:

get on down to it...
get on down the road...

etc.

hope someone can help me with the answer.

"James Brown - Sex Machine

Shout:Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing
I wanta get into it, man, you know....
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin'... doin' it, you know
Can I count it off? (Go ahead)

Spoken: One, two, three, four!

Get up, get on up
Get up, get on up
Stay on the scene, like a sex machine

Wait a minute!
Shake your arm, then use your form
Stay on the scene like a sex machine
You got to have the feeling sure as you're born
Get it together right on, right on.

Get up, get on up......

I said the feeling you got to get
Give me the fever in a cold sweat.
The way i like it is the way it is;
I got mine and don't worry' bout his

Get on up and then shake your money maker,
Shake your money maker........ "

It's a bit like that.
DC

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raymond o'hara
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:00 am    Post subject: Re: get on down Reply with quote

"aiden" <tsangky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ca2e7800.0409282343.40315667@posting.google.com...
Quote:
What does that mean? I've found in a lot of dictionaries but can't
find the real answer to it. I've heard a lot of phrases like:

get on down to it...
get on down the road...

etc.

hope someone can help me with the answer.



Get down on it is a phrase you might hear in a 70's funk song. to get down
is to get with it , be hip, find the groove and move.



Get on down the road means to move on . You'd say if you were leaving that
it's time to get on down the road . it's heard in Blues and Rock songs.
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