get off on
Idioms-
Feel the effects of or take a mind-altering drug. For example, He was getting off on crack . [ Slang ; 1930s]
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Enjoy, derive intense pleasure from, as in I really get off on good jazz . [ Slang ; c. 1970]
Example Sentences
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Taipei wanted to get off on the right foot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Neither is keen on it, and they get off on the wrong foot.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024
In previous episodes, Dorothy makes oblique references to Roy’s weakness, not his machismo, saying that men like him get off on pinning down smaller things to make themselves feel big.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024
In those early years it didn't exactly get off on the right foot with the profession.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023
“Let’s not get off on the wrong foot here, Holling. Forms are how we organize this school, and forms are never wrong, are they?”
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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