at it

Meaning

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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

employed laboring on the go hired slaving at work inked

Related terms

while one is at it go at it

Examples

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All we’re asking you to do is take a look at it again, get it rescinded or superseded, and fix it,’” Olds told me in early July.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

Words in the phrase

at it

Close letter words and terms

at intervals at irregular distances at issue at it once more at it one more time at its best