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What’s the meaning of" Get a piece of action"?
7 dic 2009 11:34
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A piece / slice of the action: it's a slang
= when someone wants to be involved in something successful that someone else started. It's a share in a scheme, project or profits; a share or role in an interesting or exciting activity, especially in order to make money:
'If you guys are going to bet on the football game, I want a piece of the action, too.'
'Cut me in for a piece of the action.'
cut somebody in = to give sb a share of the profit in a business or an activity
7 dicembre 2009
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Hello Nydia,
If someone wants to 'have a piece of the action' or a slice of the action, they want to take part in an exciting activity or situation, usually in order to make money or become more important.
You can use " a piece of" with many uncountable nouns to refer to an individual thing of a particular kind.
"Action" here as an uncountable noun means doing something for a certain purpose.
So someone is asking another to do something , to act in a particular situation or activity pursuing a certain purpose ( making money / becoming important etc ..), that is surely apparent in the context of the paragraph.
7 dicembre 2009
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Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Cinese (altro), Inglese, Russo
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Russo
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