英和和英

動詞

getting any

1. (euphemistic, chiefly in the negative) Having sex (habitually, not currently).

   He's just grumpy because he's not getting any.

   Are you getting any?

   • 1975, Neil Sedaka, “The Queen of 1964”, in Overnight Success, performed by Neil Sedaka, side 2, track 1:

     Anyone who's played on a record date / Will remember Stage Door Jenny / Well, I saw her last night, and, man / She looked like she wasn't gettin' any (Aww)

   • 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 15:

     These were the questions boys asked other boys at my school (a school which contained only boys): ‘Are you getting any?’; ‘Does she let you have any?’; ‘How much does she let you have?’ and so on.

   • 1997, Marga Gomez, Hung Like a Fly (comedy album):

     When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, "oh, another week has gone by." ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.