【get a load of】 something—(sl.)

1. listen to smth. carefully:

• Did you 【get a load of】 what she said?

2. take a look at smth.; pay attention to smth.:

• 【Get a load of】 that car. It’s got real wire wheels.

【get a load on】 —(sl.) be drunk (also: get one’s load on):

• I got a load on and had to have Jonas come down in a taxi and take me home.

Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase take a load off someone’s mind—relieve a person of anxiety:

• You have taken a load off my mind. I was afraid that we couldn’t recoup the money we had loaned.