Talk:get carried away

RFD discussion: November 2020–April 2021
Superfluous; cf. carried away. Benwing2 (talk) 00:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete according to the principle that words/phrases allowing multiple "copular verb + X" possibilities should be listed once under X. Mihia (talk) 02:39, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 10:34, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Any specific lexicographic reasons? DCDuring (talk) 00:05, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Vote is stricken. Imetsia (talk) 16:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you demonstrate that this can be used with other words? The most used copula is, but searching for "I was carried away" mostly gives examples where it means "I was physically transported away".__Gamren (talk) 13:33, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * With "be", you may more commonly find the relevant sense with an explicit agent, so try looking for "I was carried away by ~", e.g. "I guess I was carried away by all the hype surrounding the movie" would be a typical example that comes up in Google results. It merges into a figurative sense of a true passive (which is of course the origin of "get carried away" too). "I was completely carried away" also yields many relevant hits. Mihia (talk) 17:56, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Many copulative verbs can be used where be and get can be used:
 * If I sound carried away by this record, I am, and I rejoice in it.
 * The present generation, indeed, seems carried away with these things.
 * I felt carried away with joy and compassion.
 * She looked carried away with his sudden appearance.
 * Mr Besant appeared carried away by the enormous throng and his own popularity.

There may be more. DCDuring (talk) 00:17, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Great. I've added three cites to . Delete.__Gamren (talk) 09:35, 2 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. —Mahāgaja · talk 12:05, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Imetsia (talk) 16:40, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * As a non-native speaker and far from being fluent I'd appreciate to Keep it. There are referencesː Oxford: be/get carried away, Cambridge: be/get carried away, Merriam-Webster: be/get carried away. At least, if you prefer deletion, you should redirect be carried away and get carried away to carried away and fill it with more examples of use (like above from DCDuring). Have a nice day. --Jeuwre (talk) 11:29, 19 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as per DCDuring et al. At the risk of being too bold here, I have copied the translations and synonyms to carried away and made this into a redirect like be carried away. Facts707 (talk) 13:44, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not really dead against a hard redirect either, but it is not a very logical solution because get carried away does not obviously dominate attestations of carried away. But should be treated in the same way. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:38, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 16:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)