can we get on with it?

English translation: now, can we get started?

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English term or phrase:	can we get on with it?
Selected answer:	now, can we get started?
Entered by:	Yasutomo Kanazawa

10:45 May 5, 2023

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: can we get on with it?

Hi!

S: Surgeon
N: Nurse

S: Oh, there you are nurse. Hm, better late than never, I suppose.
N: Pardon?
S: I said better late than never. Now, come along nurse. Scrub up.
N: Why do I have to wash? My hands are clean!
S: When I tell you to do something, you do it; no questions asked. Do you understand?
N: I understand.
S: Anyway your hands can never be washed enough before surgery. Ha, yes, now mask.
N: Mask, oh, mask, mask.
S: Pull it over the nose nurse.
N: Oh. Oh, poor patient, is he dead?
S: Of course he's not dead. He's alive.
N: If he's alive, why isn't he moving? Has he fainted?
S: No, he hasn't fainted. He's under anesthetic. We gave him a needle.
N: Why?
S: So he won't feel any pain while he is being operated on.
N: Oh, who is he going to be operated on by?
S: Ha, questions, questions! He is going to be operated on by me, of course.
N: So, you're the doctor?
S: Yes, yes, I am the surgeon and you are the nurse. You see how it works? Now, can we get on with it?
N: Ah, you mean we're going to operate now?
S: Yes.

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What does 'can we get on with it?' mean here?

Thanks

Filippo

now, can we get started?

Explanation:
The answer is in the next line "Ah, you mean we're going to operate now?".

Selected response from:

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 11:54

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4 +4

now, can we get started?

Yasutomo Kanazawa

5 +1

Can we start the actual work/task?

Kauntay Parekh

Discussion entries: 4

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7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

now, can we get started?

Explanation:
The answer is in the next line "Ah, you mean we're going to operate now?".

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 11:54
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 19

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Can we start the actual work/task?

Explanation:
It means that "can we stop this discussion (nurse asking too many questions and doctor answering those) and actually start the operation?"

Kauntay Parekh
India
Local time: 08:24
Native speaker of:

Gujarati

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