out to get someone
English
Adverb
out to get someone (not comparable)
- Deliberately committed to causing problems for another person.
- The supervisor keeps telling me off. He’s out to get me.
- 2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right: Short Stories (page 283)
- "Why does she think they're out to get her?"
"Because she's a paranoid freak," he answered. "Same reason she wears sunglasses and a hat when she goes out the door, as if that equals a disguise."
- "Why does she think they're out to get her?"
Synonyms
- have it in for someone