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get a load of (to) [exp]
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Meaning:
- To ask someone to pay attention to someone or something because they are special or funny.
Examples:
- Get a load of the hat john is wearing! I’ve never seen anything like it!
- Get a load of this car! This is a super car!
- Get a load of that sunset! The colors are incredible.
- You have to get a load of this new restaurant; it’s amazing!
- Did you see his new car? Get a load of that; it’s a classic!
Synonym phrases for the “to get a load of”
To give the eye
To tell someone to look at something or someone with strange or unusual characteristics.
- She told me gave that strange man the eye when he walked in with a pink suit and cowboy boots.
- Hey Jake! give that cat the eye the way it’s playing with the little ball is so funny.
- He gave her the eye as he saw the girls loose and long dress.
- We both gave each other the eye the moment the manager said that nonsense.
To get an eyeful
If someone gets an eyeful of something strange or shocking, they see it with wonder.
- We got an eyeful as soon as the magician pulled a live rabbit out of his hat!
- Get an eyeful of the man in women’s dress, everything in this costume party is unusual.
- She got an eyeful when she opened the door and saw the untidy room as if something exploded there.
- Tourists get an eyeful when they visited this historic masterpiece monument.
To run over
To take a look over something.
- Let’s run over the blueprint one more time before the meeting.
- She quickly ran over her notes to correct it if there is a mistake.
- Can you run over this report and check for any grammatical mistakes?
- Wait for a minute, let me run over the plan before we start.
To take a gander
To have or take a gander at something means to look at it.
- Come take a gander at this. Have you ever seen such a wonderful beast?
- Everyone passing by the painter waited to take a gander at the painting that the man was painting.
- They went to this ancient city to take a gander of historic attractions.
- If you get a chance, take a gander at the sunset. It’s definitely astonishing tonight.
Related phrases to the “to get a load of”
To lend an ear
Used to ask someone to see and notice something that is important or strange.
- I just heard a weird sound. Could you lend an ear for a second?
- I beg you to lend an ear. I have decided to change everything.
- The manager is describing something important; you better lend an ear.
- Letme lend an ear please, they may mention my name.
To listen up
To say people, watch or pay attention to you in order to get their concentration on what you want to say.
- Listen up, I’ve got something to say, and it might change your opinion.
- Listen up there is a point that you might find it useful for reaching your target.
- Listen up everyone!
To pay heed
To pay attention to someone’s recommendation or especial statement.
- You should pay heed to the weather warnings. The weather forecast is stormy today.
- She didn’t pay heed to the documents, and that’s why the test failed.
- If you pay heed to your body, you’ll know the appropriate time for rest, work out and eating food.
- Pay heed to small signs before they change into serious problems.
To dip into
To ask a person to take quick look at information, newspaper or a passage and etc.
- I only had a few free times, then, I decided dipped into the newspaper.
- She likes to dip into some pages of “The Schopenhauer cure” instead of reading them deeply.
- Could you dip into this passage and see if it mentions anything about the Artificial Intelligence?
- He dipped into the report briefly, just to understand the minor idea before the concept.
To leaf through
To read part of a book quickly without understanding what the passage is about.
- I saw Matt leafing through the magazine while waiting for her turn in the barbershop.
- I wonder! He just leafed through the textbook before the exam but always gets the grade A.
- Sometimes I leaf through old photo albums, and the memories come flooding back.
- Before she buy that novel leafed through that at the bookstore to make sure if she wanted to buy it.
To flip through
To look at a piece of paper or pages of a book in fast way to check your previous knowledge or refer to a book like encyclopedia.
- Sally flipped through her notebook before the exam just to review the important points.
- He flipped through the encyclopedia to double-check a historical date he’d read earlier.
- She flipped through the textbook looking for that Mathematic formula that the teacher taught them in the last session.
- Before starting to fix, he flipped through the manual instruction to make sure he proceeded the steps right.
To skim through
To have glance on passage to find the main idea or concept.
- It’s better to skim through the references for saving time.
- I had him just skim through the article to get key points before the meeting started.
- She skimmed through the chapter to find the gist of the that for her summary.
- You don’t have to read every sentence one after another. You had better skim through it to understand the notion.
- He skimmed through the report to grab the significant points for his speech.
To thumb through
To look through a book, newspaper, magazine in a very fast way.
- She thumbed through the fashion magazine while waiting at the salon.
- He thumbed through the newspaper, only stopping at the sports section.
- I love to thumb through cookbooks just to look for the recipe of other countries’ food.
- They thumbed through the medical brochure, gathering new information about the illnesses and their medicines.