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'Get to have' = have an opportunity / a good chance to possess.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 09, 2010 14:55 pm get to have |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:49 am get to have |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: |
| 'Get to have' = have an opportunity / a good chance to possess. |
It could be a fake, but I reckon not — you get to have a feel for what's real and what isn't, in this job. (here get to have = should have) is it ?
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:53 am get to have |
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Hi Learner,
That's not quite right.
You get to have a feel for what's real... = You develop the ability to possess a feel for what's real...
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:43 pm get to have |
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I ran into this expression from "Friends", Ross's line:
"Basically he told me to get over myself and just do it, ya know.
So I though about what you said and I though about what he said.
And, well, his way, I get to have sex tonight so. . ."
He compares Rachel's advice and Joey's advice about if he should have sex with his gf .
And he decided to follow Joey's advice.
So I thought "get to have" means "decided to do or concluded to do" for the first. |
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2010 18:56 pm get to have |
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This is informal speech.
In this sense 'get to have' means 'have the opportunity for' (See MM's post #2 above)
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2010 23:47 pm get to have |
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| Yeah, I know. MM's post was helpful. |
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