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at it

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Occupied with a given activity; busy with something. [from 17th c.]

Engaged in sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
I came home early and caught them at it in the front room.

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Also musician Benny Andersson (yes, Benny from ABBA) in a newspaper interview: “If you spend time on something you enjoy, you become good at it.” Source: Internet

All we’re asking you to do is take a look at it again, get it rescinded or superseded, and fix it,’” Olds told me in early July. Source: Internet

“Americans in particular love to celebrate their history, but they don’t like to look at it very closely,” Wilder says in the film. Source: Internet

A: I never looked at it like, “Hey I want to be one of the best bench guys of all time.” Source: Internet

Adams says Kimbel needed no convincing that the Australians were on the right track: “I drop the specimen in his lap, he looks at it and says, ‘Yep.’ Source: Internet

After many attempts to breathe life into Herbert’s epic—from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s uncompleted 1975 feat, to David Lynch’s bizarre 1984 adaptation—director Deni Villeneuve is taking another stab at it. Source: Internet

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