| 词汇 | get into/in the act |
| 释义 | (redirected from get into/in the act)get in the actTo join something that is already in progress. Even the well-behaved students started to get in the act and cheer along with the others. get into the actTo join something that is already in progress. Even the well-behaved students started to get into the act and cheer along with the others. get in(to) the actFig. to participate in something; to try to be part of whatever is going on. (As if someone were trying to get on stage and participate in a performance.) Everybody wants to get into the act! There is not room here for everyone. I want to get in the act. get into the actAlso, get in the act. Become involved in some activity or venture, as in Everybody wants to get into the act on this offer, or I'm sure his agent plans to get in the act and start negotiations. This expression alludes to inserting oneself into a performance. [Mid-1900s] get into the act To insert oneself into an ongoing activity, project, or situation. get into/in the act, toTo thrust oneself into another’s conversation, performance, undertaking, or the like. The term comes from the theater and is analogous to another theatrical cliché, steal someone’s thunder. The American comedian Jimmy Durante popularized it from the 1930s on with his frequent complaint that “Everybody wants to get into the act” (cited by Eric Partridge in his compendium of catchphrases). It no doubt originated years earlier in vaudeville. |
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