1950 17 July 12/2 The committee is not out to ‘get’ anyone.
1969 29 Aug. 11/4 He..contended Levy had publicly stated he was ‘out to get me’.
1988 H. Mantel (1989) 141 They come here and they're suddenly cut off from their families, they've got language problems, and they start to think everybody's out to get them.
2003 G. Shteyngart iv. xxi. 228 Which proved once and for all that the world was out to get him.