게 따다

open it; earn it

따다 opens something sealed — a bottle cap — and it also means obtaining something you had to work for, such as permanent residency, or picking choreography up quickly. Be warned that half the lines printed here are not this verb at all: 게따 is a playful spelling of 겠다, so 가야게따 and 못 참게따 are simply 'I should go' and 'I can't take it'. With that noise removed, only a few lines are left and they do not settle on one sense.

The examples below did not fully pin this one down — read them before relying on the entry above.