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Titolo: "Get a grip!"

Cosa si intende con l'espressione "Get a grip!" detta da sola?
"Impara le basi!" (di una materia) 
e per estensione: "Svegliati, impara, afferra il concetto!"
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Got to get a grip
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip
I can't explain how to be fat city
You gotta live large, gotta let it rip
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip rip
Once upon a crime I thought I was cool
but I don't want to brag
Once I crossed the line I think I musta
zigged when I shoulda zagged
[Chorus]
Same old same old every day
if things don't change you're just gonna rot
Cause if you do what you've always done
you'll always get what you always got
Uh could that be nothin'
[Chorus]
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip, rip
Who knows for sure yeah without a doubt
What goes on when the lights go out
Or who pulls in when I pull out
And what's a one eyed trouser trout?
I was so short sighted
Now the wrong been righted
I feel so delighted
I get so excited
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
If you think I'm vein, better shut ya lip
I can't explain how to be fat city
You gotta live large, gotta let it rip
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip
You wanna get high in a New York minute
Choke that smoke, honey crack the whip
Your head gets dead, yea,
As long as you're in it
You wanna hang loose, gotta get a grip
Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip
http://www.song-lyrics-library.com/aerosmith/aerosmith-get-a-grip-song-lyrics.html

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Ti domandi e ti rispondi 8-)
Cmq concordo, io direi anche "datti una mossa" (in senso figurato, non 
letterale), "ripigliati".
La canzone cmq e' bella, un classico! :-)
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Murderess." "Primitive totalitarian." "Three times over - for what 
right has /she/ to say that /we/ can’t exist [...]. Crypto-criminal 
mind!" 

 letterale), "ripigliati".
"Ripagliati" è molto idiomatico :)
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 "Ripagliati" è molto idiomatico :)
Pardon, "Ripigliati!"
A Roma "Ripajete" :)
-- 
Enrico C
...still legal tender...

 A Roma "Ripajete" :)
"Ripagliati" sembra uno che sprona un altro a farsi un'altra canna :-)
-- 
Laz - [
http://www.dimensionedelta.net
]
"Well, I figured, what the hell!" 

 "Ripagliati" sembra uno che sprona un altro a farsi un'altra canna :-)
lol, vero


http://www.song-lyrics-library.com/aerosmith/aerosmith-get-a-grip-song-lyrics.html
"Get a grip" is short for "get a grip on yourself".
http://www.answers.com/topic/get-a-grip-on
"riprendere la padronanza di sé"
http://www.garzantilinguistica.it/interna_eng.html?dizionario=2&lemma=27825
Joe from Massachusetts

 A Roma "Ripajete" :)
"Ripijate!", of course.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/get-a-grip-on
Ha! So "on yourself" is implied! 
Thanks!
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