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Wareheim said so far the wind has only knocked down branches and limbs small enough to be carried. "Nothing you need to get a chain saw after yet," he said by phone.
As I understand, the sentence is saying that: Nothing you need to get a chain saw after the hurricane is gone yet. But I'm not sure if my understanding is correct?
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Wareheim said so far the wind has only knocked down branches and limbs small enough to be carried. "Nothing you need to get a chain saw after yet," he said by phone.
As I understand, the sentence is saying that: Nothing you need to get a chain saw after the hurricane is gone yet. But I'm not sure if my understanding is correct?
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Wareheim said so far the wind has only knocked down branches and limbs small enough to be carried. "Nothing you need to get a chain saw after yet," he said by phone.
As I understand, the sentence is saying that: Nothing you need to get a chain saw after the hurricane is gone yet. But I'm not sure if my understanding is correct?
The full source.
word-usage sentence-meaning
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Wareheim said so far the wind has only knocked down branches and limbs small enough to be carried. "Nothing you need to get a chain saw after yet," he said by phone.
As I understand, the sentence is saying that: Nothing you need to get a chain saw after the hurricane is gone yet. But I'm not sure if my understanding is correct?
The full source.
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To me, this seems like an usual usage of phrasal verb get after:
get after
2. To pursue something that is a problem or menace: If you don't get after those termites, your house will be destroyed.
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You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
Nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
(complete sentence) → [There is] nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.
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So far [yet, before some more severe destruction] there's nothing to go [get] after with a chain saw.
P. S. Anyway, after points here at the source of trouble needing a chain saw to be applied. Go after means 'to try to find' (e.g. to go after gold), to aim at something needing application of that instrument here. As the other answer shows, the original get after expression has an even more direct meaning addressing something troublesome (with that instrument here).
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To me, this seems like an usual usage of phrasal verb get after:
get after
2. To pursue something that is a problem or menace: If you don't get after those termites, your house will be destroyed.
(TFD)
You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
Nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
(complete sentence) → [There is] nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.
answered 56 mins ago
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To me, this seems like an usual usage of phrasal verb get after:
get after
2. To pursue something that is a problem or menace: If you don't get after those termites, your house will be destroyed.
(TFD)
You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
Nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
(complete sentence) → [There is] nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.
answered 56 mins ago
Em.♦
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To me, this seems like an usual usage of phrasal verb get after:
get after
2. To pursue something that is a problem or menace: If you don't get after those termites, your house will be destroyed.
(TFD)
You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
Nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
(complete sentence) → [There is] nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.
answered 56 mins ago
Em.♦
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To me, this seems like an usual usage of phrasal verb get after:
get after
2. To pursue something that is a problem or menace: If you don't get after those termites, your house will be destroyed.
(TFD)
You get after [someone/something] (with something). Wareheim's usage strikes me as a (US) Southernism, and the article does state that the man has a home in North Carolina.
The usual construction would be
Nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
(complete sentence) → [There is] nothing you need to get after with a chainsaw yet.
In other words, there is nothing yet that needs to be handled, cleared, or destroyed with a chainsaw.
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answered 56 mins ago
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So far [yet, before some more severe destruction] there's nothing to go [get] after with a chain saw.
P. S. Anyway, after points here at the source of trouble needing a chain saw to be applied. Go after means 'to try to find' (e.g. to go after gold), to aim at something needing application of that instrument here. As the other answer shows, the original get after expression has an even more direct meaning addressing something troublesome (with that instrument here).
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So far [yet, before some more severe destruction] there's nothing to go [get] after with a chain saw.
P. S. Anyway, after points here at the source of trouble needing a chain saw to be applied. Go after means 'to try to find' (e.g. to go after gold), to aim at something needing application of that instrument here. As the other answer shows, the original get after expression has an even more direct meaning addressing something troublesome (with that instrument here).
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So far [yet, before some more severe destruction] there's nothing to go [get] after with a chain saw.
P. S. Anyway, after points here at the source of trouble needing a chain saw to be applied. Go after means 'to try to find' (e.g. to go after gold), to aim at something needing application of that instrument here. As the other answer shows, the original get after expression has an even more direct meaning addressing something troublesome (with that instrument here).
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So far [yet, before some more severe destruction] there's nothing to go [get] after with a chain saw.
P. S. Anyway, after points here at the source of trouble needing a chain saw to be applied. Go after means 'to try to find' (e.g. to go after gold), to aim at something needing application of that instrument here. As the other answer shows, the original get after expression has an even more direct meaning addressing something troublesome (with that instrument here).
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