Get a load of somebody doing something

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I run on my own and I find it quite boring but I can go and say ‘I am doing a five mile run tonight’ then normally I will get a load of people saying‘well I did it last night and I ran five minute miles can you beat that?’

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get a load of
informal : to look at (someone or something)
? Get a load of that car! ? You should get a load of his pants.

Does "get a load of somebody doing something" mean "to look at somebody doing something"?

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

This usage is not the idiom you found in your dictionary.

Consider.

I got a load of books from the library. I obtained a lot of books. The result is that I have a lot of books.

I got a load of people saying This means that, when I say 'I am doing a 5-mile run tonight', the result I get is that a lot of people say to me 'Well, I did it last night . . . '.

In the real world, there are not a lot of people who can run 5 consecutive 5-minute miles.

Clive

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