get a line

v : get to know or become aware of; "I learned that she has two

grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"

[syn: {learn}, {hear}, {get word}, {get wind}, {pick up},

{find out}, {discover}, {see}]

Get a life!

Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed

to terminal {geek}dom. Often heard on {Usenet}, especially as

a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure

issue of {theology} too seriously. This exhortation was

popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live"

episode in a speech that ended "Get a ▫life▫!", but some

respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It

was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five

years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-01-18)