get (your) hands on (someone)

get (your) hands on (someone)
informal if you say you will kill someone when you get your hands on them, you mean you will be very angry with them.

You wait till I get my hands on her - I'll kill her!


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  • get your hands on sb — get your hands on sb/sth ► INFORMAL to find or get someone or something you want: »She would have to wait days for funds to clear before she could get her hands on the money. Main Entry: ↑hand …   Financial and business terms

  • get your hands on sb/sth — ► INFORMAL to find or get someone or something you want: »She would have to wait days for funds to clear before she could get her hands on the money. Main Entry: ↑hand …   Financial and business terms

  • get your hands on sth — get your hands on sb/sth ► INFORMAL to find or get someone or something you want: »She would have to wait days for funds to clear before she could get her hands on the money. Main Entry: ↑hand …   Financial and business terms

  • get your hands off — take/get/your hands off informal phrase to stop touching someone or something Thesaurus: to stop holding or touching somethingsynonym Main entry: hand …   Useful english dictionary

  • get/lay your hands on — to find, get, or control (someone or something) I m still trying to lay my hands on my car keys. He couldn t wait to get his hands on her money. Wait until I get my hands on you. [=you will be in trouble when I catch you] • • • Main Entry: ↑hand …   Useful english dictionary

  • take your hands off — take/get/your hands off informal phrase to stop touching someone or something Thesaurus: to stop holding or touching somethingsynonym Main entry: hand …   Useful english dictionary

  • off your hands — phrase if someone or something is off your hands, you are no longer responsible for them Thesaurus: to deny or refuse responsibilitysynonym Main entry: hand * * * off your hands : no longer in your possession or no longer your responsibility If… …   Useful english dictionary

  • get — [get; ] also, although it is considered nonstandard by some [, git] vt. GOT, gotten, getting: see usage note at GOTTEN got, got [ME geten < ON geta, to get, beget, akin to OE gietan (see BEGET, FORGET), Ger gessen in vergessen, forget < IE… …   English World dictionary

  • get — gettable, getable, adj. /get/, v., got or (Archaic) gat; got or gotten; getting, n. v.t. 1. to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension. 2. to cause to be in one s possession or succeed …   Universalium

  • Your Five Gallants — is a Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton. It falls into the sub genre of city comedy. Allusions in the play point to a date of authorship of 1607.The play was entered into the Stationers Register on March 22, 1608. The quarto published by… …   Wikipedia

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