get : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an unimaginably large amount
  billy-ho; billyo; billyoh.
  
  • British say `it rained like billyo' where Americans say `it rained like all get out'

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• adjective satellite seizing the attention
  eye-catching.
  
  • eye-catching posters
• adjective satellite likely to attract attention
  catchy.
  
  • a catchy title for a movie

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• verb get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
  pick up; get a line; discover; see; hear; learn; find out; get wind.
  
  • I learned that she has two grown-up children
  • I see that you have been promoted

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• verb look at with attention
  take a look; have a look.
  
  • Have a look at this!
  • Get a load of this pretty woman!

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• verb see something for a brief time
  catch sight; catch a glimpse.
  

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• verb smell strongly and intensely
  get a noseful.
  

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• verb smell strongly and intensely
  get a noseful.
  

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• verb move around; move from place to place
  get about.
  
  • How does she get around without a car?

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• verb communicate successfully
  put over.
  
  • I couldn't get across the message
  • He put over the idea very well
• verb become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
  get across; sink in; come home; fall into place; penetrate; dawn; click.
  
  • It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  • she was penetrated with sorrow
• verb travel across or pass over
  traverse; track; pass over; get across; cover; cross; cut through; cut across.
  
  • The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

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• verb obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
  make headway; advance; gain ground; win; gain; pull ahead.
  
  • The home team was gaining ground
  • After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference

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• verb proceed or get along
  fare; do; make out; come.
  
  • How is she doing in her new job?
  • How are you making out in graduate school?
  • He's come a long way
• verb have smooth relations
  get on; get along; get along with.
  
  • My boss and I get along very well
• verb develop in a positive way
  advance; come along; shape up; come on; progress; get along.
  
  • He progressed well in school
  • My plants are coming along
  • Plans are shaping up

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• verb have smooth relations
  get on; get along; get along with.
  
  • My boss and I get along very well

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• verb be released or become known; of news
  break; get around.
  
  • News of her death broke in the morning
• verb avoid something unpleasant or laborious
  short-circuit; go around; bypass.
  
  • You cannot bypass these rules!
• verb be a social swinger; socialize a lot
  swing.
  
• verb move around; move from place to place
  get about.
  
  • How does she get around without a car?

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• verb do something despite obstacles such as lack of time
  
  • He finally got around to painting the windows

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• verb reach or gain access to
  access.
  
  • How does one access the attic in this house?
  • I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof
• verb influence by corruption
  
• verb cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  annoy; rag; devil; bother; vex; irritate; nettle; rile; nark; get at; gravel; chafe.
  
  • Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me
  • It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves

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• verb run away from confinement
  break loose; escape.
  
  • The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
• verb escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  escape; get off; get by; get away.
  
  • She gets away with murder!
  • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
• verb remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
  escape.
  
  • We escaped to our summer house for a few days
  • The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer

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• verb recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
  win back.
  
  • We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company
  • He got back his son from the kidnappers
• verb take revenge or even out a score
  get back.
  
  • I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even
• verb get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
  settle.
  
  • I finally settled with my old enemy

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• verb to lag or linger behind
  drop behind; hang back; trail; drag; drop back.
  
  • But in so many other areas we still are dragging

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• verb come to terms with
  contend; deal; cope; manage; grapple; make out; make do.
  
  • We got by on just a gallon of gas
  • They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
• verb pass or move in front of
  
  • Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race
• verb escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  escape; get off; get by; get away.
  
  • She gets away with murder!
  • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

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• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb lower (one's body) as by kneeling
  
  • Get down on your knees!
• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  take down; lower; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb alight from (a horse)
  light; dismount; unhorse; get down.
  
• verb pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
  swallow.
  
  • Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!
• verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  depress; dispirit; dismay; deject; demoralise; cast down; demoralize.
  
  • These news depressed her
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
• verb put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
  put down; write down; set down.
  
• verb take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  begin; get; start out; set about; start; set out; commence.
  
  • We began working at dawn
  • Who will start?
  • Get working as soon as the sun rises!
  • The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
  • He began early in the day
  • Let's get down to work now

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• verb put on clothes
  dress.
  
  • we had to dress quickly
  • dress the patient
  • Can the child dress by herself?

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• verb compensate; make the score equal
  equalise; equalize.
  
• verb take revenge or even out a score
  get back.
  
  • I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even

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• verb begin or set in motion
  go; start.
  
  • I start at eight in the morning
  • Ready, set, go!
• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb take in marriage
  get hitched with; wed; marry; conjoin; espouse; hook up with.
  

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• verb get something or somebody for a specific purpose
  line up; find; come up.
  
  • I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener
  • I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing
  • The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter

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• verb get into one's hands, take physically
  take.
  
  • Take a cookie!
  • Can you take this bag, please
• verb be in or establish communication with
  contact; reach; get hold of.
  
  • Our advertisements reach millions
  • He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
• verb affect
  clutch; seize.
  
  • Fear seized the prisoners
  • The patient was seized with unbearable pains
  • He was seized with a dreadful disease

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• verb to come or go into
  move into; go in; come in; go into; enter; get in.
  
  • the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
• verb succeed in a big way; get to the top
  make it; arrive; go far.
  
  • After he published his book, he had arrived
  • I don't know whether I can make it in science!
  • You will go far, my boy!
• verb secure a place in a college, university, etc.
  get in.
  
• verb of trains; move into (a station)
  pull in; draw in; move in.
  
  • The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station

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• verb establish communication with someone
  touch base; connect.
  
  • did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?

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• verb get involved in or with
  tangle with.
  
• verb to come or go into
  move into; go in; come in; go into; enter; get in.
  
  • the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
• verb secure a place in a college, university, etc.
  get in.
  
• verb familiarize oneself thoroughly with
  
  • He really got into semantics
• verb put clothing on one's body
  assume; don; wear; put on.
  
  • What should I wear today?
  • He put on his best suit for the wedding
  • The princess donned a long blue dress
  • The queen assumed the stately robes
  • He got into his jeans

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• verb understand, usually after some initial difficulty
  get it; catch on; latch on; tumble; get onto; twig; cotton on.
  
  • She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
• verb receive punishment
  
  • You are going to get it!

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• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

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• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

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• verb take in marriage
  get hitched with; wed; marry; conjoin; espouse; hook up with.
  

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• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
  
• verb be relieved of one's duties temporarily
  
• verb transfer
  send off; send.
  
  • The spy sent the classified information off to Russia
• verb cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
  
  • The lawyer got him off, even though there was no doubt in everybody's mind that he killed his wife
• verb escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  escape; get off; get by; get away.
  
  • She gets away with murder!
  • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
• verb enjoy in a sexual way
  
  • He gets off on shoes
• verb alight from (a horse)
  light; dismount; unhorse; get down.
  
• verb get out of quickly
  hop out.
  
  • The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car
• verb send via the postal service
  mail.
  
  • I'll mail you the check tomorrow
• verb get high, stoned, or drugged
  trip out; turn on; trip.
  
  • He trips every weekend
• verb deliver verbally
  
  • He got off the best line I've heard in a long time

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• verb get started or set in motion, used figuratively
  take off.
  
  • the project took a long time to get off the ground

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• verb have smooth relations
  get on; get along; get along with.
  
  • My boss and I get along very well
• verb get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
  board.
  
• verb get up on the back of
  hop on; mount; mount up; bestride; jump on; climb on.
  
  • mount a horse
• verb grow late or (of time) elapse
  
  • It is getting on midnight--let's all go to bed!
• verb appear in a show, on T.V. or radio
  be on.
  
  • The news won't be on tonight
• verb develop in a positive way
  advance; come along; shape up; come on; progress; get along.
  
  • He progressed well in school
  • My plants are coming along
  • Plans are shaping up
• verb grow old or older
  age; maturate; senesce; mature.
  
  • She aged gracefully
  • we age every day--what a depressing thought!
  • Young men senesce

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• verb have smooth relations
  get on; get along; get along with.
  
  • My boss and I get along very well

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• verb suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
  take one's lumps.
  

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• verb understand, usually after some initial difficulty
  get it; catch on; latch on; tumble; get onto; twig; cotton on.
  
  • She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on

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• verb move out of or depart from
  leave; go out; exit.
  
  • leave the room
  • the fugitive has left the country
• verb take out of a container or enclosed space
  bring out.
  
  • Get out your best dress--we are going to a party!
• verb move out or away
  pull out.
  
  • The troops pulled out after the cease-fire
• verb express with difficulty
  
  • I managed to get out a few words
• verb bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
  take out; pull; draw; pull out.
  
  • draw a weapon
  • pull out a gun
  • The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
• verb be released or become known; of news
  break; get around.
  
  • News of her death broke in the morning
• verb escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  escape; get off; get by; get away.
  
  • She gets away with murder!
  • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

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• verb travel across or pass over
  traverse; track; pass over; get across; cover; cross; cut through; cut across.
  
  • The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day
• verb to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end
  
  • Let's get this job over with
  • It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task
• verb improve in health
  get over; bounce back.
  
  • He got well fast
• verb get on top of; deal with successfully
  master; subdue; overcome; surmount.
  
  • He overcame his shyness

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• verb dispose of
  remove.
  
  • Get rid of these old shoes!
  • The company got rid of all the dead wood
• verb terminate, end, or take out
  extinguish; eliminate; do away with.
  
  • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  • eliminate my debts
• verb do away with
  abolish.
  
  • Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia

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• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb be unable to move further
  mire; bog down; grind to a halt.
  
  • The car bogged down in the sand

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• verb overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
  have the best; overcome.
  
  • Heart disease can get the best of us

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• verb win a victory over
  overcome; defeat.
  
  • You must overcome all difficulties
  • defeat your enemies
  • He overcame his shyness
  • He overcame his infirmity
  • Her anger got the better of her and she blew up

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• verb discover some bad or hidden information about
  
  • She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail

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• verb be or become completely proficient or skilled in
  master.
  
  • She mastered Japanese in less than two years

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• verb be there first
  
  • They had gotten the jump on their competitors

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• verb get the meaning of something
  grok; apprehend; dig; comprehend; grasp; compass; savvy.
  
  • Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?

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• verb finish a task completely
  finish up; wrap up; clear up; mop up; polish off; finish off.
  
  • I finally got through this homework assignment
• verb spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
  while away.
  
• verb succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
  come through.
  
  • We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
• verb be in or establish communication with
  contact; reach; get hold of.
  
  • Our advertisements reach millions
  • He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
• verb become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
  get across; sink in; come home; fall into place; penetrate; dawn; click.
  
  • It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
  • she was penetrated with sorrow

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• verb reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"
  progress to; make; reach.
  
  • We made it!
  • She may not make the grade
• verb arrive at the point of
  
  • She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long
• verb cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  annoy; rag; devil; bother; vex; irritate; nettle; rile; nark; get at; gravel; chafe.
  
  • Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me
  • It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves

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• verb deal with (a problem or a subject)
  come to grips.
  
  • I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents

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• noun a small informal social gathering
  meeting.
  
  • there was an informal meeting in my living room
• verb get people together
  assemble; gather.
  
  • assemble your colleagues
  • get together all those who are interested in the project
  • gather the close family members
• verb get together socially or for a specific purpose
  meet.
  
• verb work together on a common enterprise of project
  collaborate; join forces; cooperate.
  
  • The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well
  • We joined forces with another research group
• verb become part of; become a member of a group or organization
  fall in; join.
  
  • He joined the Communist Party as a young man

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• verb irritate
  get.
  
  • Her childish behavior really get to me
  • His lying really gets me

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• verb rise to one's feet
  stand up; rise; uprise; arise.
  
  • The audience got up and applauded
• verb get up and out of bed
  rise; turn out; uprise; arise.
  
  • I get up at 7 A.M. every day
  • They rose early
  • He uprose at night
• verb raise from a lower to a higher position
  elevate; lift; bring up; raise.
  
  • Raise your hands
  • Lift a load
• verb cause to rise
  
  • The sergeant got us up at 2 A.M.
• verb develop
  work up.
  
  • we worked up an as of an appetite
• verb put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
  rig out; dress up; fig out; overdress; trick up; deck out; prink; tog out; fig up; deck up; fancy up; attire; tog up; gussy up; trick out.
  
  • She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
  • The young girls were all fancied up for the party
• verb arrange by systematic planning and united effort
  organize; prepare; devise; machinate; organise.
  
  • machinate a plot
  • organize a strike
  • devise a plan to take over the director's office
• verb study intensively, as before an exam
  drum; grind away; swot up; bone up; bone; cram; mug up; swot.
  
  • I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

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• verb start to be active
  get started; get rolling; get going; get moving; get cracking; bestir oneself.
  
  • Get cracking, please!

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• verb improve in health
  get over; bounce back.
  
  • He got well fast

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• verb get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
  pick up; get a line; discover; see; hear; learn; find out; get wind.
  
  • I learned that she has two grown-up children
  • I see that you have been promoted

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• verb understand, usually after some initial difficulty
  get it; catch on; latch on; tumble; get onto; twig; cotton on.
  
  • She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on

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• verb get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
  pick up; get a line; discover; see; hear; learn; find out; get wind.
  
  • I learned that she has two grown-up children
  • I see that you have been promoted

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• verb deteriorate in health
  relapse.
  
  • he relapsed

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• adjective satellite capable of being reached or attained
  getatable; come-at-able.
  
  • a very getatable man
  • both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations

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• noun the time at which something is supposed to begin
  outset; showtime; starting time; kickoff; start; offset; beginning; commencement; first.
  
  • they got an early start
  • she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her

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Get"-pen`ny noun

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1. Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. Colloq. Chapman.

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Get"-up noun

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1. General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. Colloq. H. Kingsley.

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• noun enterprising or ambitious drive
  push; energy.
  
  • Europeans often laugh at American energy

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• noun a card expressing get-well wishes
  

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• noun a reciprocal group action
  paying back; return.
  
  • in return we gave them as good as we got

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• verb have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
  hold; have.
  
  • She has $1,000 in the bank
  • He has got two beautiful daughters
  • She holds a Master's degree from Harvard

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• adjective satellite obtained illegally or by improper means
  dirty.
  
  • dirty money
  • ill-gotten gains

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• to have, or get, the better of another person or thing.

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• to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.

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• (Boxing), to get the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will; hence, to have wholly in One's power. The allusion is to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court, where he was helpless, while the lawyers lived upon his estate.

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• to before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; usually with of. "Get the start of the majestic world." Shak. "She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her." Dryden.

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• to gain ground. R. "Evening mist . . . gathers ground fast." Milton.

  There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground of them, but by bidding higher. South.

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• (or other distance), to pass over it in traveling.

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• to advance; to prosper.

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• . (a) To get in advance of. (b) To surpass; to get the better of. Colloq.

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• to proceed; to advance; to prosper.
• to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

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• to go or come into the company of; to become one of a number.

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• to fall asleep.

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• to wander out of the right way.

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• to reach; to make way to.

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• to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.

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• to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.

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• to arrive in front, or more forward.

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• to fall in the rear; to lag.

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• to arrive between.

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• to pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get beyond it." Thackeray.

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• to commit to memory.

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• to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.

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• to become intoxicated.

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• to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.

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• to gain influence. Obs.

  Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them. Baxter.

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• to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.

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• . (a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach." Dickens. (b) To pass into, or reach; as, " as, " a language has got into the inflated state." Keary.

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• to get into difficulty or danger. Colloq.

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• to approach within a small distance.

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• . (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke. (b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a trial . Colloq.

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• to proceed; to advance; to prosper.

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• . (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.

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• to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.

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• to get even with; to pay off. Colloq.

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• f, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly.

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• to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.

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• to learn the method or arrangement of; hence, to become accustomed to. Colloq.

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• (an object) (Gun.), to find the angle at which the piece must be raised to reach (the object) without carrying beyond.

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• . (a) To pass through something. (b) To finish what one was doing.

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• to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.
• . (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc. (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of stairs, etc.

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• to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.

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• to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. Slang

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• to make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business.

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• to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.

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• to assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked.) . Colloq.

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• adjective satellite difficult to reach or attain
  ungetatable; un-come-at-able.
  

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