Learn English – How to use ‘get lost’ to mean ‘get lost’

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Undoubtedly, I have heard this zillions of times since my childhood.

get lost – used to tell someone forcefully and quite rudely to go away

Now, look at this campaign sentence –

The soothing music of subliminal language takes you to the eternal journey of your soul. It's mind refreshing and rejuvenating. You get lost into the world of serenity and divineness.

Get lost… huh? I literally mean that you really lose yourself into the world…

Is it proper to use get lost there? Still, I want other alternative that should mean one loses themselves into that world.

Best Answer

The meaning of get lost as bugger off only applies when you use it as an imperative.

In the sentence

You get lost into the world of serenity and divineness.

There is no imperative to be found, so the idiomatic meaning of the imperative "get lost!" does not apply.

You could, if you really wanted to, change the meaning of the phrase with a simple comma:

You, get lost into the world of serenity and divineness.

But that would be stretching it. It does't really make sense to order someone to get lost in such a nice environment.

Even when used as an imperative, the "bugger off" meaning is not there unless context makes it very clear that it is mean to be rude.

As Damkerng T. notes, you could write:

Get lost into the world of serenity and divineness.

meaning

Lose yourself in the world of serenity and divineness.

To get lost usually simply means that you lose you way around somewhere - it only means that you should remove yourself literally off the premises when it is used as an imperative, standing on its own.

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