get someone at it

English

Verb

get someone at it (third-person singular simple present gets someone at it, present participle getting someone at it, simple past got someone at it, past participle (UK) got someone at it or (US) gotten someone at it)

1. (slang, transitive) To have someone on, make fun of someone.
   • 1958, Frank Norman, chapter 3, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life‎^[1], page 136:

     You see I did this on perpose(sic) just to get her at it.

   • 1958, Frank Norman, chapter 3, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life‎^[2], page 151:

     What he did'nt(sic) realise was that the boggie(sic - bogey(police officer)) was getting her at it.

2. (slang, transitive) To get someone in a cycle of pointless iterations.

   I don't mean to get you at it, but can you make further changes to your article?