get real

Idioms  

1. Be realistic, understand what's going on, as in You think you'll win the lottery if you buy one ticket a week? Get real! [Slang; second half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Before that, investors will get real estate data, including the National Association of Realtors’ pending home sales index on Monday and S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Cotality Case-Shiller index for October on Tuesday.

From Barron's

But let’s get real for a moment: You’re almost certainly not a billionaire.

From MarketWatch

“We are gonna get real quiet, real low, turn off everything,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's time for the BMA to get real. We're not going to be held to ransom. We are going to plow on regardless," Streeting said.

From BBC

Companies that need to get real work done with so-called AI agents, on a large scale, are finding that “small language models” are more than good enough to power them.

From The Wall Street Journal