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'Get you' is commonly, perhaps originally, used by 'gay' people and said in a very 'camp' way (in the sense of being exaggeratedly & affectedly homosexual/ pretending to be homosexual, with floppy wrists & calling everybody 'darling'). An example is :-
-Get you, darling, love your hairstyle'.
-1996, Stepping Up: four play scripts for the classroom, Jane Lilliard and Mollie Hemens:
-Gary: Ssh. Miss is talking!
-Debbie: Ooh, get you! Since when have you ever wanted to listen to the teachers?
1998 January 16, “Film: Dancing with the devil”, in The Independent, London, England:
-When Keanu Reeves falls apart, you just want to hiss "Ooh, get you!"
2005 September 17, “The 50 Best Ways to Accessorise”, in The Independent, London, England:
-'I know that the thought of travelling with a cashmere wrap makes some people say 'ooh, get you,' Annalisa admits, 'but no one who has ever done it laughs!
We say 'get you' to show that you think someone is acting as if they are more important, rich, or successful than they really are or if they sound pompous. It is informal but said in a pseudo-camp way.
-Get you in your fancy clothes!
-Girl boasts to her friends about kissing a hot guy.
Friends: "oooh, get you!"
It is difficult to pinpoint the exact nuance but the above should help!
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it with the additional personal pronouns that the phrase is sometimes used with:-
get him, her, you, etc.:-
Get a load of him, her, you, etc. said to make the person you are with look at or notice someone, and usually laugh at them:
-Get him in his new clothes!:s
-Get you, darling, love your hairstyle'.
-1996, Stepping Up: four play scripts for the classroom, Jane Lilliard and Mollie Hemens:
-Gary: Ssh. Miss is talking!
-Debbie: Ooh, get you! Since when have you ever wanted to listen to the teachers?
1998 January 16, “Film: Dancing with the devil”, in The Independent, London, England:
-When Keanu Reeves falls apart, you just want to hiss "Ooh, get you!"
2005 September 17, “The 50 Best Ways to Accessorise”, in The Independent, London, England:
-'I know that the thought of travelling with a cashmere wrap makes some people say 'ooh, get you,' Annalisa admits, 'but no one who has ever done it laughs!
We say 'get you' to show that you think someone is acting as if they are more important, rich, or successful than they really are or if they sound pompous. It is informal but said in a pseudo-camp way.
-Get you in your fancy clothes!
-Girl boasts to her friends about kissing a hot guy.
Friends: "oooh, get you!"
It is difficult to pinpoint the exact nuance but the above should help!
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it with the additional personal pronouns that the phrase is sometimes used with:-
get him, her, you, etc.:-
Get a load of him, her, you, etc. said to make the person you are with look at or notice someone, and usually laugh at them:
-Get him in his new clothes!:s