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get-out colloq.
[f. get v. 72 and 73.]
1. Phr. as or like (all) get-out, used to indicate a high degree of something.
1838J. C. Neal Charcoal Sks. 12 We look as elegant and as beautiful as get out. 1869W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Proverbs 60 As common as get out. Cornw. 1881J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 119 He glooart at meh as impident as git oot. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxviii, We got to dig in like all git-out. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap v. 197 When I got into the parlour she had them on, pleased as all get-out. 1959M. Steen Tower i. ii. 35 By then I was as drunk as all-get-out. 1967V. Canning Python Project vii. 146 They looked as comfortable as all get-out.
2. An escape from a difficult position; an evasion, withdrawal.
1899E. W. Hornung Amateur Cracksman 115, I ask you, was there ever a better get-out? 1909Westm. Gaz. 4 June 7/3 I'm entirely in your hands. I have got no get-out. 1932Economist 30 Jan. 221/2 An orderly ‘get-out’ from their German commitments. 1968Listener 4 Jan. 27/2 The lads didn't know what they wanted to say and fell on the magic and mystery idea as an unanswerable get-out.
3. Theatr. The total weekly cost of a theatrical production; orig., the ability of a touring company to leave a town after paying all expenses; the amount of box-office takings required to assure this. Also attrib.
1952Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 88 Get out, the ability to leave a town with all expenses paid... Get-out figure, the weekly running cost of a touring show. 1959P. Bull I know Face iii. 54 In actual fact we should have been sitting pretty, as the get-out was only {pstlg}663 a week. Ibid. 55, I was able to get the ‘get-out’ figure down to {pstlg}500 a week. 1961Times 3 Jan. 3/7 The ‘get-out’ for Brecht's Galileo (cast of 40) was {pstlg}1,920 a week, for eight performances a week. |