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the meaning of "get sb to do/doing sth"

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Nat093
 
Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2015 01:52 pm
The definition of " get sb to do/doing sth" in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is "to persuade or force someone to do something". But the expressions also mean"to casue sth to happen, or cause a particular state" (as in: "You got me looking so crazy right now"), am I right? I just want to make sure.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 08:33 am
@Nat093,

Quote:
(as in: "You got me looking so crazy right now"


That doesn't make sense to me.

Please revise it.
Nat093
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 10:30 am
@McTag,
It's a sentece taken from Beyonce's song "Crazy in love". Here it means "you make me look so crazy right now" and that is why I asked you the question.
McTag
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 01:29 pm
@Nat093,

Aha. Song lyrics, especially in the vernacular, are a specialist subject!
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 04:42 pm
@McTag,
Don't act like it's a recent phenomenon.

ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 04:46 pm
@izzythepush,
Ah...I actually liked that one.
I just don't understand the thread title at all.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 04:55 pm
@ossobuco,
Sb somebody, sth probably something, or maybe south. If the Op wanted help with English, they should have written in English.

Not everybody spends half their lives texting.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2015 05:04 pm
@izzythepush,
Snort.

Thank you for the clue.
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