get in on

Regulars at Club Underground, a decades-long British indie night now at Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown, would naturally get in on the occasion.

Historian Jill Lepore explained in a New York Times column that Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a technocracy movement devotee who eventually uprooted his family to South Africa to get in on that country’s exciting new apartheid craze.

But with so much at stake, even these smaller states may get in on the action eventually.

Increasingly, firms’ access to retirees’ money looks less like a way to help ordinary investors get in on the action, and more like a way to force them to hold the bag as larger, more sophisticated investors look to escape.

“Just to put it in perspective, if you told a Wall Street investor they’d get a $33,000 return on every one dollar invested, they would trip over themselves to get in on that deal.”