in. to leave while it is still safe or possible to do so. : I can tell that it's time for me to get while the gettin's good. , I think we should go. Let's get while the going's good.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Get while the goin's goodis always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
