When an idea gets across or when you get it across, you succeed in making other people understand it.

If you get along with someone, you have a friendly relationship with them. You can also say that two people get along.

To get around a problem or difficulty means to overcome it.

If you get around a rule or law, you find a way of doing something that the rule or law is intended to prevent, without actually breaking it.

If news gets around, it becomes well known as a result of being told to lots of people.

If you get around someone, you persuade them to allow you to do or have something by pleasing them or flattering them.

If you get around, you visit a lot of different places as part of your way of life.

The way that someone gets around is the way that they walk or go from one place to another.

When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.

To get at something means to succeed in reaching it.

If you get at the truth about something, you succeed in discovering it.

If you ask someone what they are getting at, you are asking them to explain what they mean, usually because you think that they are being unpleasant or are suggesting something that is untrue.

If you get away, you succeed in leaving a place or a person's company.

If you get away, you go away for a period of time in order to have a holiday.

When someone or something gets away, or when you get them away, they escape.

If you get away with doing something wrong or risky, you do not suffer any punishment or other bad consequences because of it.

If someone or something gets back to a state they were in before, they are then in that state again.

If you get back to a subject that you were talking about before, you start talking about it again.

If you get something back after you have lost it or after it has been taken from you, you then have it again.

If you get back to an activity, you start doing it again after you have stopped doing it.

If you get back to someone, you contact them again after a short period of time, often by telephone.

If you can get by with what you have, you can manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way.

If something gets you down, it makes you unhappy.

If you get down, you lower your body until you are sitting, kneeling, or lying on the ground.

If you get down to something, especially something that requires a lot of attention, you begin doing it.

If a political party or a politician gets in, they are elected.

If you get something in, you manage to do it at a time when you are very busy doing other things.

When a train, bus, or plane gets in, it arrives.

If you get into a particular kind of work or activity, you manage to become involved in it.

If you get into a school, college, or university, you are accepted there as a student.

If someone who has broken a law or rule gets off, they are not punished, or are given only a very small punishment.

If you tell someone to get off a piece of land or a property, you are telling them to leave, because they have no right to be there and you do not want them there.

You can tell someone to get off when they are touching something and you do not want them to.

If you get on with something, you continue doing it or start doing it.

If you get on to a topic when you are speaking, you start talking about it.

If you get out, you leave a place because you want to escape from it, or because you are made to leave it.

If you get out, you go to places and meet people, usually in order to have a more enjoyable life.

If you get out of an organization or a commitment, you withdraw from it.

If news or information gets out, it becomes known.

If you get out of doing something that you do not want to do, you succeed in avoiding doing it.

If you get over an unpleasant or unhappy experience or an illness, you recover from it.

If you get over a problem or difficulty, you overcome it.

If you get through a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult, you complete it.

If you get through a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it.

If you get through to someone, you succeed in making them understand something that you are trying to tell them.

If you get through to someone, you succeed in contacting them on the telephone.

If a law or proposal gets through, it is officially approved by something such as a parliament or committee.

When people get together, they meet in order to discuss something or to spend time together.

If you get something together, you organize it.

If you get an amount of money together, you succeed in getting all the money that you need in order to pay for something.

When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up, they rise to a standing position.

When you get up, you get out of bed.

You can say that something is, for example, as good as you can get to mean that it is as good as it is possible for that thing to be.

If you say you can't get away from something or there is no getting away from something, you are emphasizing that it is true, even though people might prefer it not to be true.

If you get away from it all, you have a holiday in a place that is very different from where you normally live and work.

You can use you get instead of 'there is' or 'there are' to say that something exists, happens, or can be experienced.

You use get with adjectives to mean 'become'. For example, if someone gets cold, they become cold, and if they get angry, they become angry.

Get is used with expressions referring to states or situations. For example, to get into trouble means to start being in trouble.

To get someone or something into a particular state or situation means to cause them to be in it.

If you get someone to do something, you cause them to do it by asking, persuading, or telling them to do it.

If you get something done, you cause it to be done.

To get somewhere means to move there.

When you get to a place, you arrive there.

To get something or someone into a place or position means to cause them to move there.

Get is often used in place of 'be' as an auxiliary verb to form passives.

If you get to do something, you eventually or gradually reach a stage at which you do it.

If you get to do something, you manage to do it or have the opportunity to do it.

You can use get in expressions like get moving, get going, and get working when you want to tell people to begin moving, going, or working quickly.

If you get to a particular stage in your life or in something you are doing, you reach that stage.

You can use get to talk about the progress that you are making. For example, if you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress, and if you say that something won't get you anywhere, you mean it will not help you to progress at all.

When it gets to be a particular time, it is that time. If it is getting towards a particular time, it is approaching that time.

If something that has continued for some time gets to you, it starts causing you to suffer.

If you get something that you want or need, you obtain it.

If you get something, you receive it or are given it.

If you get someone or something, you go and bring them to a particular place.

If you get a particular result, you obtain it from some action that you take, or from a calculation or experiment.

If you get a particular price for something that you sell, you obtain that amount of money by selling it.

If you get the time or opportunity to do something, you have the time or opportunity to do it.

If you get an idea, impression, or feeling, you begin to have that idea, impression, or feeling as you learn or understand more about something.

If you get a feeling or benefit from an activity or experience, the activity or experience gives you that feeling or benefit.

If you get a look, view, or glimpse of something, you manage to see it.

If you get a joke or get the point of something that is said, you understand it.

If you get an illness or disease, you become ill with it.

When you get a train, bus, plane, or boat, you leave a place on a particular train, bus, plane, or boat.