get a result

get a result
   British
   not to lose
   The jargon of less literate soccer managers and players, who have problems in differentiating a draw or loss from an abandoned match:
    Nobody fancied playing Leeds — it was difficult to get a result against us. (Charlton, 1996) (Soccerspeak has its own grammar, in which the past participle replaces the past tense and an adjective becomes an adverb. Thus The boy done good does not imply that the player is or has been a philanthropist, as becomes apparent when even better play elicits the comment
   The boy done excellent.)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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