ON IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on it mean? 

• ON IT (adverb)
  The adverb ON IT has 1 sense:

1. on that

  Familiarity information: ON IT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON IT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On that

Synonyms:

on it; on that; thereon

Context example:

text and commentary thereon

 Context examples 

That had been one of her last 'trifles', and John's eye had fallen on it as he spoke.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ought to be one more man on it at least.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It's a map, and here's a cross on it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You see, she fell on it and it lies on a polished floor with nothing to keep it in place.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wished I could live in it and on it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The project could be someone else’s or yours—it does not matter how the project comes into being, only that you will work on it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I think I could lay my finger on it,” said Holmes quietly.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stepped boldly out on it; and went down, crying with fear, into the embrace of the unknown.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His arm lay on it now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)