Meanings
- not comparableDeliberately committed or designed to cause problems for another person.
The supervisor keeps telling me off. He’s out to get me.
2 more examples
In order to live a happier life, one of the first steps is to realize that the world is not out to get you.
"Why does she think they're out to get her?" "Because she's a paranoid freak," he answered. "Same reason she wears sunglasses and a hat when she goes out the door, as if that equals a disguise."
2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right: Short Stories, page 283Synonyms: have it in for someone
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbDeliberately committed or designed to cause problems for another person.
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out to get someone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20to%20get%20someone
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