get your coat ling.

[Lavrin]

"To get your coat" в предложении:
If you fancy doing a bit of racing, you'll need a minimum of 60bhp at the wheel...or you might as well get your coat now. - следует понимать буквально ("надеть пальто", что ли?!) или же идиоматически: "поменять свое мнение/взгляд"??

То есть, как бы, "если вы большой любитель малость погонять, то вам понадобится 60 "коней" на заднем колесе (здесь о мощности мотоцикла)... в противном случае для вас лучше будет... сразу надеть свое пальтишко (и убраться восвояси отсюдова!.. :), или все же поменять свои взгляды (на жизнь!.. :)???

[gogolesque]

here it means you may as well just leave, dont bother being here if you dont have at least 60bhp at the wheel

if you dont have this, you have no businees being at the race so go get your coat and get out of there/here

[Lavrin]

Ну, да, убираться восвояси (последнее)! :)
Но, все-же, "so go get your coat"?..

[gogolesque]

"go get your coat" has a literal meaning obviously, but it also just became a turn-of-phrase meaning, get out of here
you will just have to commit it to memory :) dont worry so much... just know it

[Lavrin]

КАроче, если у чувака не будет этих самых 60 "коней", то он может идти гулять!.. :)
Нечего, мол, тебе делать без "60 коней": ведь "60" - не "50", и не "40"!..
Шапками... э-э, ну... то есть, шлемами закидают!!
(Куры засмеют: где ж эт видано - не иметь "60" коней!.. :)) На заднем-то колесе!..) А ведь не на переднем...

[Lavrin]

СОБИРАЙ СВОИ ВЕЩИ(ЧКИ)! Вот, наверное!..

А вот что нам поведал один весьма популярный поисковик на “get your coat”:

1) Gay Divorce Soundtrack Lyrics
Artist: Lyrics
Song: WHERE WOULD YOU GET YOUR COAT Lyrics
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/gaydivorce/wherewouldyougetyourcoat.htm

As a buyer for a firm that deals in ladies' fur coats
I get sort of pessimistic now and then
'Cause so many women who invest in our coats
Spend so many evenings out with other men.
I wish they'd simply take a few notes
From the animals who make their coats.

For if dear little ermines in Siberia
On their dear little husbands didn't dote,
If the dear little 'possum
Didn't let their husbands boss 'em,
Tell me where would you get your coat?
If the dear little caraculs in Syria
All their time to their mates did not devote,
If the dear little sables
Ever told their husbands fables,
Tell me where would you get your coat?

If you modern wives led more domestic lives
And started singing "Home, Sweet Home"
There'd be no more divorce in Paris and
Of course there'd be no more annulments is Rome.
For if the dear little foxes had hysteria
When their mates fondly grabbed them by the throat,
If the dear little rabbits
Weren't so bourgeois in their habits,
Tell me where would you get your coat?

If the dear little lamb in Lithuania
Ever had a flirtation with a goat,
If home life didn't thrill a South American chinchilla,
Tell me where would you get your coat?

If the dear little skunk in Pennsylvania
Over her dear little husband didn't gloat,
If the dear little beaver
Were in birth control a believer,
Tell me where would you get your coat?

Now if each wife I see
Would only try to be
Content to make her husband's bed,
Cholly Knickerbocker might have nothing more to write
And Town Topics would cease to be read.
For if the dear little mink should get a mania
For som hell-raising gigolo of note,
If the dear little squirrel
Quit her mate
'Cause he was virile,
Tell me where would you get your coat?
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2) Get your coat, get your culture
http://www.rochester-citynews.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:3227

3) Go get your coat, Fido...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245036786.html?from=storylhs

4) Grab Your Coat And Get Your Hat
http://www.findaproperty.com/story.aspx?storyid=3446

5) ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
(Jimmy McHugh, 1930)
http://magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/redkol/butov/perev/mgh.html

Grab your coat and get your hat,
Leave your worries on the doorstep,
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.

Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step,
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.

I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But I'm not affraid,
Because this Rover crossed over.

If I never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller -
Gold dust at my feet
On the sunny side of the street.

ТАМ, НА СОЛНЕЧНОЙ СТОРОНЕ

Хватай кепку и пальто,
Брось тревоги на пороге,
Видишь - небо стало ясней,
Там, на солнечной стороне.

Слушай звук своих шагов -
Это лучшая из мелодий -
Жизнь хороша вполне
Там, на солнечной стороне.

Я был в тени, ну и пусть,
И в глазах была грусть,
А теперь не боюсь -
Рубикон мною пройден.

И хоть пусто в кошельке,
Я богаче, чем Рокфеллер, -
Искры золота светят мне
Там, на солнечной стороне.
1999.