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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Gets good and hungry?!

"Our cat has been missing for a couple of days, but I'm sure it'll turn up when it gets good and hungry." What does it mean? gets good (!) and hungry.
  

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It means "very hungry."
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"good and" + adjective ~ "decidedly" / "very" / "extremely" / "really" + adjective

There's an emotional tone to this expression that can't be captured exactly in words but is perhaps somewhat in the category of mild anger.

I already told you. I'm not doing it now! I'll do it when I get good and ready!

CJ
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youzougood and hungry." What does it mean
It means when the cat gets so hungry that he cannot stay away any longer, he will come home for food.
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First of all thanks! You said "There's an emotional tone to..." Why "to"? If I were you I would use "in this expression"? Could ( could
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youzouThere's an emotional tone to ...
~ There's an emotional tone [that goes with / that is associated with] ...

to can mean 'that goes with', though it's not used that way very often.

Compare:

Is this the key to that door?
Is this the answer to that question?

CJ
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