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Get a life!- that what comrade Stalin would write on the gates of every GULAG-death camp ... "
Varlam Shalamov

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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get a life
phrase of life
INFORMAL
start living a fuller or more interesting existence.
"if he's a lout, then get yourself out of there and get a life"
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What does get a life mean in slang?

phrase. If you tell someone to get a life, you are expressing frustration with them because their life seems boring or they seem to care too much about unimportant things. [informal, disapproval]

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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic region of Kolyma, due in part to his support of Leon Trotsky and praise of writer Ivan Bunin.


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