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Synonyms

at it

Idioms  
  1. Vigorously pursuing an activity, especially a fight, but also sex or some other activity. For example, Whenever they play bridge they really go at it (fight), or The new job keeps Tom at it day and night (works hard), or In the spring the dogs are always at it (sex). Shakespeare used this seemingly modern idiom for “fighting” in Troilus and Cressida (5:3): “They are at it, hark!” [Late 1500s]


Example Sentences

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“You can look at it from inside!”

From Literature

Either she looked at it in front of me and I knew whether she liked it or hated it, or she didn’t look at it in front of me and I just lived in the ice-cold grip of uncertainty for the rest of my life.

From Literature

The man turned back to the door and stared at it expectantly.

From Literature

A wire managed to get tangled around my arm and I flapped at it in frustration, only looking up when I noticed that the small group of test evaluators had come out from behind their panel of computer screens, where they’d watched every nightmarish detail of what had to be the worst simulation test in the history of simulation tests.

From Literature

“You were chosen for this program, and you will do your very best to excel at it, regardless of its location. Now let’s get moving; the extra security detail for this transfer is needed elsewhere by nine o’clock.”

From Literature