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  • 31get in — verb 1. to come or go into (Freq. 13) the boat entered an area of shallow marshes • Syn: ↑enter, ↑come in, ↑get into, ↑go into, ↑go in, ↑move into • …

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  • 32get your finger out — pull/get/your finger out british spoken phrase to start to make more effort Thesaurus: to try hard to do or get somethingsynonym Main entry: finger * * * get, pull, etc. your ˈfinger out …

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  • 33Get-rich-quick scheme — Easy money redirects here. For other uses, see Easy Money (disambiguation). A get rich quick scheme is a plan to acquire high rates of return for a small investment. The term get rich quick has been used to describe shady investments since at… …

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  • 34get on — phrasal verb Word forms get on : present tense I/you/we/they get on he/she/it gets on present participle getting on past tense got on past participle got on 1) get on something [intransitive/transitive] to get into a bus, plane, or train 2)… …

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  • 35get by — verb 1. come to terms with (Freq. 3) We got by on just a gallon of gas They made do on half a loaf of bread every day • Syn: ↑cope, ↑make out, ↑make do, ↑contend, ↑grapple, ↑ …

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  • 36get down — verb 1. lower (one s body) as by kneeling (Freq. 3) Get down on your knees! • Hypernyms: ↑move • Verb Frames: Something s Somebody s Something is ing PP …

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  • 37get — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. secure, obtain, procure, acquire; win, earn, attain; understand, comprehend; produce, beget. See acquisition, production, reproduction. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To obtain] Syn. gain, procure, acquire;… …

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  • 38Get Out of My Room — Infobox Album | Name = Get Out of My Room Type = Album Artist = Cheech Chong Released = Recorded = 1985 Genre = Comedy Length = 43:05 Label = MCA Records/ Warner Bros. Records/ WEA Producer = Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5… …

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  • 39Get Home Free — by John Clellon Holmes (1964)    This third novel by John Clellon Holmes was his favorite and arguably his best but also his least known. Written between January 1961 and October 1962, it succeeded in getting Holmes out of a frustrating writer’s… …

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  • 40ˌget ˈon — phrasal verb British 1) to continue doing something with more effort or more quickly than before Can we please get on, because there are a lot of things still to discuss.[/ex] 2) same as get along My parents and I don t get on.[/ex] She seems to… …

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