AT IT

Definition: AT IT

AT IT

1. Busily or actively engaged.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Activity

Busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger.

Intention

Toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt); run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.

Crosswords: AT IT

That's why you're so good at it. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I heard Dick Rivers caught the two of you bowled up and going at it in the same room with poor Miss Ogletree dead as a doornail laid out on a gurney (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

Pretty good at it, too. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

I could shoot the manager while I'm at it, kind of like a bonus (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I mean, look at it! There's nothing going on. That's what I saw when I looked out over the city: nothing (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

Don't look at it like it's forever (I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues; performing artist: Elton John)

You'll soon get it just stay hard workin at it (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

TAKE A PEAK AT IT GRAB IT, STAB IT, (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition)

Ev'ry way you look at it, you lose (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Be good or be good at it! (references; author: unknown)

Life is like a mirror: If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. (references; author: unknown)

Hard at It (1971)

At It Again (1928)

Mack at It Again (1914)

At It Again (1912)

Look at It This Way (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Reluctantly fit : a guide to exercise and health for people who don't want to work at it (reference)

• Guitar player magazine's Fix your axe : easy guitar repairs you can do at home : how to fix bridges, frets, necks, pickups, plugs, heads, truss rods, bindings, toggle switches, and other trouble spots without spending a lifetime at it (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sabine gazed at it for a few moments--. Credit: Library of Congress.

So you are at it again, eh? aping the Borodine!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hey, Chief! those boys are at it again!. Credit: Library of Congress.

In spite of adverse winds I'll just keep at it. Credit: Library of Congress.

At it again. Credit: Library of Congress.

Critical moments. Boss, 'at tail oughta be docked -- yassah! Anyway yo' look at it ... Credit: Library of Congress.

My gosh! He's still at it! I better get back into my hole again!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Depends on how you look at it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. William Sharrard and one of her children. Her husband has been a farmer of the cut-over regions for years, but cannot make a living at it. The family is on relief. Near Silk Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully

Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was (r)not its strangest quality

And exactly what is meant by 'suddenly' I don't know because they've apparently been at it for ten years

She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.

Eponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette herself, furtively, it is true, had dared to look at it.

He looked at it and saw that Wells was afraid

Joad picked it up and looked at it.

When the thirty centuries begin to look down on it, mankind begin to look up at it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

OPC is diagnosed in two ways. A doctor may take a swab or sample of infected tissue and look at it under a microscope. (references)

The drawback to these medications is that they may take a week or so to be maximally effective and can sting and even damage the nasal septum (the soft bony division in the middle of the nose) if the spray is directed at it. Tell your doctor if you have any bloody discharge while using these sprays. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "AT IT": go at it ♦ have a go at it ♦ i'll have a shot at it ♦ let me catch you at it again! ♦ looking at it as a whole. Additional references.

French

jetez-y (throw at it). (various references)

German

dran, daran (against that, at that, next to that, on that, to that). (various references)

Greek 

δεν το βάζει κάτω (he keeps at it, he never quits), δουλεύω εντατικά (be hard at it). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy hévvel lát neki (to go at it hard), bátran hozzáfog vmihez (to go boldly at it), egyenesen hozzáfog vmihez (to go boldly at it), felfordul a gyomrom tőle (it makes my gorge rise, my gorge rises at it), kavarog a gyomrom tőle (it makes my gorge rise, my gorge rises at it), keményen dolgozik (to be always hard at it, to fag, to work hard), mindig dolgozik (to be always hard at it), émelyedem tőle (it makes my gorge rise, my gorge rises at it), nagy garral vitázik (to go at it hammer a tongs), undorom tőle (my gorge rises at it), nagy zajjal küzd (to go at it hammer a tongs), nekimegy (attack, to go at it baldheaded, to make at, to run at, to wade in), rászorít vkit (to keep sy at it), sok dologgal él (to be always hard at it), teljes erejéből ráveti magát (to go at it tooth and nail), teljes erejével nekifog (to go at it baldheaded), nagy erővel megy neki (to go at it hard). (various references)

Italian

in questo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �張って (Go for it, Hold on, Keep at it), 序でに (incidentally, on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), 序に (incidentally, on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), 横好き , 御覧下さい (please look at it), �"覧下さい (please look at it), 下手の横好き (being crazy about something but being very bad at it). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

が�"ばって (Go for it, Hold on, Keep at it), ついでに (incidentally, on the occasion, taking the opportunity, whileare at it), �"ら�"く� さい (please look at it), よ�"ずき, へたのよ�"ずき (being crazy about something but being very bad at it). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay itay.(various references)

Romanian

voi încerca sã dau loviturã (i'll have a shot at it), sã te mai prind odatã (let me catch you at it again), privindu-l ca un tot (looking at it as a whole). (various references)

Spanish

lanzarse ciegamente a ello (go at it bald-headed). (various references)

Swedish

därvid (during the time, thereby), däråt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ait, att, tat.

-2 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: atilt, attic, tacit, taint, titan, trait, vitta.

+2 letters: artist, attain, attics, attire, battik, cattie, diktat, intact, lattin, mattin, pattie, ratite, static, strait, strati, tactic, taints, tallit, tanist, tatami, tattie, taxite, tictac, tipcat, titans, titian, titman, traits, vittae, yttria.

+3 letters: abattis, agitate, agitato, altoist, antifat, antipot, antitax, apatite, arietta, ariette, artiest, artiste, artists, astatic, astrict, atactic, atavist, atheist, athirst, atomist, attains, attaint, attired, attires, attrite, babbitt, baptist, batiste, battier, battiks, batting, biretta, bistate, catmint, cattail, cattier, catties, cattily, catting, cattish, cavetti, citator, citrate, dictate, diktats, distant, dittany, ectatic, etatism, etatist, fattier, fatties, fattily, fatting, fattish, fatuity, habitat, hatting, imitate, instant, instate, intrant, intreat, iratest, iterant, iterate, lattice, lattins, matting, mattins, mattoid, nattier, nattily, nictate, nitrate, outwait, partita, partite, patient, patriot, patties, patting, pitapat, ratites, rattail, rattier, ratting, rattish, ricotta, satiate, satiety, satinet, situate, staithe, starlit, statice, statics, stating, station, statism, statist, stative, straits, striate, tabetic, tachist, tacitly, tactics, tactile, taction, tainted, talipot, tallith, tanists, tantivy, tantric, tarting, tartish, tastier, tastily, tasting, tatamis, tattier, tatties, tattily, tatting, tauting, taxites, taxitic, teatime, tertial, tertian, tetanic, tictacs, tipcart, tipcats, titania, titanic, titians, titlark, titrant, titrate, titular, traitor, transit, tripart, tritoma, tsarist, tubaist, turista, tzarist, vastity, vatting, vitiate, vittate, whatsit, yttrias.