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get while the gettin 's good
(redirected from Goin)

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get (out) while the gettin(g)'s good and get (out) while the goin(g)'s good
to leave while it is still safe or possible to do so. I could tell that it was time for me to get while the gettin's good. I told her she should get out while the gain's good.
See also: get, good


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This image is as starkly numinous as many of the most alienating passages in McCarthy's previous books, but it conveys something quite different, a peculiarly human warmth: "It was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night.
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