get the works

get the works
амер.; разг.
1) подвергаться грубому, жестокому обращению; быть избитым; ≈ попасть в переплёт

‘If he comes here he'll get the works,’ Bill told them. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Winged Seeds’, ch. XXII) — - Пусть только сунется к нам, - сказал Билл. - Ему не поздоровится.

So far as Calvin Finley and Patricia Dunn were concerned, they were expendable. They'd get the works. (D. Carter, ‘Tomorrow Is with Us’, ch. XXV) — Что касается Кэлвина Финли и Патриции Данн, то с этими легко справиться. Этих обработают.

2) быть убитым

Joe was going to get the works if he ever came back to that neighborhood again. (DAI) — Джо укокошат, если он снова появится в этом районе.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • get the works — See: THE WORKS …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • get the works — See: THE WORKS …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • the works — {n. plural}, {slang} 1. Everything that can be had or that you have; everything of this kind, all that goes with it. * /When the tramp found $100, he went into a fine restaurant and ordered the works with a steak dinner./ 1b. See: SHOOT THE WORKS …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • the works — {n. plural}, {slang} 1. Everything that can be had or that you have; everything of this kind, all that goes with it. * /When the tramp found $100, he went into a fine restaurant and ordered the works with a steak dinner./ 1b. See: SHOOT THE WORKS …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • shoot the works — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To spare no expense or effort; get or give everything. * /Billy shot the works when he bought his bicycle; he got a bell, a light, a basket, and chrome trimmings on it, too./ * /The Greens shot the works on their daughter s… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • shoot the works — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To spare no expense or effort; get or give everything. * /Billy shot the works when he bought his bicycle; he got a bell, a light, a basket, and chrome trimmings on it, too./ * /The Greens shot the works on their daughter s… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • in the works — adjective Being planned or worked upon. Be careful not to get any debris in the works. Syn: in the hopper …   Wiktionary

  • Major characters in the works of Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L Engle, an American novelist, diarist and poet, produced over twenty novels, beginning with The Small Rain (1945), and continuing into the 1990s with A Live Coal in the Sea (1996).[1] Many of her fictional characters appeared in more… …   Wikipedia

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