get fresh with (one)

get fresh with (one)

1. To treat one impolitely or inappropriately, especially by talking back to an authority figure. Don't get fresh with your mother, young lady! Whenever a student is getting fresh with me, I make them sit in front of the entire class and answer every question I ask. Are you really going to get fresh with me? All right, then, you're grounded for two weeks!
2. To grope or caress one in an aggressive, over-eager, or unsolicited sexual manner. We were having a lovely date, but then he started getting fresh with me in the movie theater. The secretary alleges that the CEO got fresh with her multiple times during the course of her time working at the company. A: "Whoa, you really slapped him in the face?" B: "He was getting fresh with me! What was I supposed to do?"
See also: fresh, get
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get ˈfresh (with somebody)

(informal) be rude and too confident in a way that shows a lack of respect for somebody or a sexual interest in somebody: Don’t get fresh with me!
See also: fresh, get
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