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]

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Example Sentences

“I think it’s ludicrous that the city might turn it into something else. While they’re at it, why don’t they make the Hemingway house a Vrbo?”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Everything became so difficult that she hid the basket away. I know she didn’t even want to look at it, let alone have anyone else see it.”

From Los Angeles Times

Reflecting on her time on I'd Do Anything, Buckley said: "I look back at it and I feel like, 'God, you're so brave.' I don't know if I'd have that courage now. And I don't know if that was kind of innocence or ignorance."

From BBC

"It's going to be amazing to watch these young quarterbacks go at it because I don't know what they will do. This is when legends begin to be built."

From BBC

I go look at it and it was just completely destroyed,” Roller said.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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