" Get Real "

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Definition:

Get real!: Be realistic!

This idiom is used when someone
seems naive. "Get real!" shows
a negative opinion of another person's
ideas and means something like
"How could you believe that?"

 Or

get real: try to see what is really happening, get serious .

For example:

He wants five million dollars to play hockey? Tell him to get real.

This is Etymology according to the "Oxford English Dictionary" , 

  slang (orig. U.S.). to get real  : to be realistic or serious; to face facts; to abandon a naive, insincere, or erroneous opinion. Now freq. in imper., used to suggest that an idea or statement is foolish, overly idealistic, or quite wrong.

1969   Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 6   Get real, to tell the truth.

1980   Maledicta 3 ii. 222   The aggressiveness of the younger ass-bandit who wants to score in sex as a game is, in the older homosexual, taken as evidence he is a dizzy queen who doesn't know when to quit (how to live or when to die) and won't get real (face facts).

1987   K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 89   ‘Shit, Jo. I didn't know he meant anything to you.’ ‘Get real. He doesn't.’

1993   Caves & Caving Winter 40/1   For those who feel that politics have no place in caving or other sporting activities—get real!

1998   C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Series 1 (1999) Episode 4. 112  Denise: I'll tell you who else is gay. Dave: Who? Denise: Antony. Antony: Get real.

2002   Village Voice (N.Y.) 36/2   Again at war in the Middle East, the U.S. could decide to get real about investing in alternative fuels.



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