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Discover LudwigThe phrase "get the gig" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in informal or casual language to mean securing a job or performance opportunity. Example: After years of practicing and perfecting my skills, I finally landed the gig as the lead vocalist for a popular band.
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(He famously showed up stoned to an interview with Lorne Michaels; he didn't get the gig).
Apple has already dropped Google Maps and YouTube as default services; might Yahoo get the gig?
I'm hoping that Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, will get the gig next.
A star of the highly profitable morning show on the network carrying the Olympics "lucky" to get the gig?
The person has to get the gig based on their credentials and skills and abilities".
"Clear that Bresnan and Dernbach don't want Giles to get the gig," honks Richard Thomson.
When her competitors saw her, Zac Holtzman said, they politely excused themselves, assuming she would automatically get the gig.
Typically, he felt that he was lucky to get the gig and feared that Seamen would rumble his shortcomings.
But on "Nashville," even though the show was fiction, the details were real: his band didn't get the gig, because Lindi Ortega did.
Presley did not get the gig, though the following year he and Mr. Bond briefly toured together, along with Johnny Cash and others.
Amfo has moved from 1Xtra into one of Radio 1's prestige slots, the first black woman to get the gig.
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