To get the shaft... Must be an idiom.
2007-10-02 07:01:10 · 11 answers · asked by questioner 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Thanks to repliers.
The original sentence was about a date gone wrong. Like the guy was a real turn off. So i kinda get the meaning...
2007-10-02 07:21:25 · update #1
It means you just got taken advantage of.
2007-10-02 07:10:00 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get The Shaft
2016-12-15 18:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metaphor for the getting fuc*ed!
As in " when the divorce became final, she got the gold mine, I got the shaft!"
2007-10-02 07:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you just got treated very badly; getting the shaft is reference to sex, the "shaft" in question being a penis, and it usually has to do with anal sex.
2007-10-02 07:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to get the shaft means to be cast out or fired in an employment sense
2007-10-02 07:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its got several meanings,
this is our u.k. version of it. to shaft some-one is to con them ect. also can mean fired from a job. I.E. we all shafted from our jobs." basically means being cheated out of ect.
2007-10-02 07:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by cassy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
back in the slave days there was a person in charge of the workers in the fields and if one of the slaves was not working they would get cracked with the whip of the field boss. So the saying lets get cracking comes from the slave owners telling the field boss to get everybody working.
2016-03-13 06:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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"get cracking" means the same thing as "get started", or "get on with it". Whenever I use it, I mean "come on, lets do this!" Hope this helps!
2016-04-01 02:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by Shane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was on YA for something else, but this question was trending on the sidebar...
2016-08-26 01:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've just been screwed. You do know what that means, right?
2007-10-02 07:20:36 · answer #10 · answered by MLJ 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋