get ink

verb

To receive publicity.

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Meanings

verbget ink (third-person singular simple present gets ink, present participle getting ink, simple past got ink, past participle (UK) got ink or (US) gotten ink)

present singular third person gets ink · participle present getting ink · past got ink · UK participle past got ink · US participle past gotten ink

  1. idiomaticTo receive publicity.

    [The amendment wi]ll get overturned. Big fuss for nothing. — It might get overturned, but it gets ink along the way.

    2014 February, John Mankiewicz, House of Cards, season 2, episode 6
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    Soon everybody, not just the Lefraks, was sneering. Donald Trump was getting more ink than Harry Helmsley, and there were no buildings to show for it, just bizarre stories with acronyms like CPC, UDC, MTA in them.

    1980 November 17, Marie Brenner, “Trumping the Town”, in New York Magazine, page 27

Origin

From get, ink. From the sense of ink as "publicity," referring to the ink used for newspapers.

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Translations

Czech být rozmáznutý v novinách
  • být rozmáznutý v novináchreceive publicity
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