Get one's ... on

[Ross Clark]

Local (NZ) journalist writing about an actress in a thriller who has to
do a lot of running:

"You can see she is struggling to run on the high heels and can't get
her Tom Cruise run on..."

I first became aware of this idiom a few years ago, hearing someone
(Australian, I think) announce to the other participants in a
semi-formal social event that it was "time to get our drink on", i.e.
start drinking seriously.

Usage comments? Novel? Familiar? From where? How old?

[Snidely]

Local (NZ) journalist writing about an actress in a thriller who has to do a
"You can see she is struggling to run on the high heels and can't get her Tom
Cruise run on..."
I first became aware of this idiom a few years ago, hearing someone
(Australian, I think) announce to the other participants in a semi-formal
social event that it was "time to get our drink on", i.e. start drinking
seriously.
Usage comments? Novel? Familiar? From where? How old?

At least 5 years, probably over 10 years. I think I first heard it as
"get our groove on", which suggests a pop music environment, but it
could have come from the type of reality TV where "hold my beer" was
popular.

/dps

[Ross Clark]

Post by Ross Clark
Local (NZ) journalist writing about an actress in a thriller who has
"You can see she is struggling to run on the high heels and can't get
her Tom Cruise run on..."
I first became aware of this idiom a few years ago, hearing someone
(Australian, I think) announce to the other participants in a
semi-formal social event that it was "time to get our drink on", i.e.
start drinking seriously.
Usage comments? Novel? Familiar? From where? How old?

At least 5 years, probably over 10 years.  I think I first heard it as
"get our groove on", which suggests a pop music environment, but it
could have come from the type of reality TV where "hold my beer" was
popular.
/dps

Yes. Now you mention those, it could even be related to "get it on" from
an earlier decade, and even to "get a move (wiggle, etc.) on", from my
distant youth.
Still, the more recent variation with the possessive seems like a new
growth. All I found from fumbling around trying to figure out where
Green would have hidden it was:

1999 Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 5: get one's drink on – satisfy a nervous
craving to start drinking excessively.

[Stefan Ram]

Post by Ross Clark
Still, the more recent variation with the possessive seems like a new
growth.

It reminds me of "Get your rocks off!", just with "on"!

From a 2012 paper:

|Ninja uses linguistic innovation in the anime. For instance,
|he uses the syntactic frame /to get one's X on/ to comment on
|Afro's convalescence: "I see somebody's getting their little
|resort on!"
"Linguistics and the Study of Comics".

[Stefan Ram]

Post by Stefan Ram
"Linguistics and the Study of Comics".

|"Get Your Vacation On" is a new twist on a formula whose
|contemporary source is "Get your groove on" ("to get
|something going," e.g., "to dance") from the early to
|mid-1990s.
Fritinancy Blog - see more there!

There's also this thing floating around the interwebs that
looks like a TL;DR of a 2019 gabfest called "/Getting its
productive on/: The recent life of the English /get one's X
on/ construction". Word on the street is it's been blowing up
over the last twenty years or so. They even threw in a quote
from way back in '09 to drive the point home:

|"But I am ready to relax by the fire and get my real simple
|magazine on." [Daniels and Shure, Parks and Recreation, 2009]
.

[lar3ryca]

Post by Stefan Ram

Post by Ross Clark
Still, the more recent variation with the possessive seems like a new
growth.

It reminds me of "Get your rocks off!", just with "on"!

Post by Stefan Ram
|Ninja uses linguistic innovation in the anime. For instance,
|he uses the syntactic frame /to get one's X on/ to comment on
|Afro's convalescence: "I see somebody's getting their little
|resort on!"
"Linguistics and the Study of Comics".

[Hibou]

Post by Ross Clark

Post by Ross Clark
Local (NZ) journalist writing about an actress in a thriller who has
"You can see she is struggling to run on the high heels and can't get
her Tom Cruise run on..."
I first became aware of this idiom a few years ago, hearing someone
(Australian, I think) announce to the other participants in a
semi-formal social event that it was "time to get our drink on", i.e.
start drinking seriously.
Usage comments? Novel? Familiar? From where? How old?

At least 5 years, probably over 10 years.  I think I first heard it as
"get our groove on", which suggests a pop music environment, but it
could have come from the type of reality TV where "hold my beer" was
popular.

Yes. Now you mention those, it could even be related to "get it on" from
an earlier decade, and even to "get a move (wiggle, etc.) on", from my
distant youth.
Still, the more recent variation with the possessive seems like a new
growth. All I found from fumbling around trying to figure out where
1999 Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 5: get one's drink on – satisfy a nervous
craving to start drinking excessively.

There are some comments here and here, suggesting it's AmE:

'to get one's freak on' -
<https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/to-get-ones-freak-on.1133472/>

'getting one's rumble on' -
<https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/getting-ones-rumble-on.2328621/> :

"We use the "get one's....on" idiom with other things also in AE, more
commonly urban AE, and it implies doing something with gusto or
enthusiasm [...]" ('dukaine', Richmond, VA)

To set about something with vigour - 'to get tore in' in ScE.

[Sam Plusnet]

Post by Ross Clark
Local (NZ) journalist writing about an actress in a thriller who has
"You can see she is struggling to run on the high heels and can't get
her Tom Cruise run on..."
I first became aware of this idiom a few years ago, hearing someone
(Australian, I think) announce to the other participants in a semi-
formal social event that it was "time to get our drink on", i.e. start
drinking seriously.
Usage comments? Novel? Familiar? From where? How old?

At least 5 years, probably over 10 years.  I think I first heard it as
"get our groove on", which suggests a pop music environment, but it
could have come from the type of reality TV where "hold my beer" was
popular.

A variant, "Get Your Freak On" is at least 30 years old.

The earliest use of that phrase that I could pin down was as the title
of an album recorded in 1994 by a band called 'Rare Essence' (never
heard of 'em).

(I'm pretty sure I posted this last night, but apparently not.)