| Get ahead |
go forward |
You can get ahead of your rivals only by hard work. |
| Get along |
proceed |
They just can't get along together because of temperamental differences. |
| get along (with) |
To be on good terms; work well with |
It's important to get along with your team supervisor. |
| get at |
To imply |
What are you getting at Do you think I'm to blame? |
| get away |
To escape |
I think we should get away for the weekend. |
| Get away with |
without being punished or with little punishment |
Although his fault was serious, he got away with light punishment. |
| Get back |
To retrieve |
Make sure you get every single form back before you leave the office today evening. |
| get by |
To manage to cope or to survive |
Students without jobs have a hard time getting by. |
| get in |
To enter |
When did you get in last night? |
| get into (noun) |
To enter |
How did you get into your car without the keys? |
| get off |
To leave (bus, train, plane) |
You should get off the train in Kings Heath. |
| get on |
To board (bus, train, plane) |
I'm trying to get on the flight to Brussels. |
| get on (well) with (someb |
To have a good relationship with |
He doesn't get on very well with the other members of the committee. |
| Get on with |
live together, pull with |
Both husband and wife are getting on well with each other. |
| get on with (something) |
To continue to do; make progress |
After they split up, she had a hard time getting on with her life. |
| get out |
To leave |
He had a hard time getting out of Newark because of the snow? |
| get out of |
To avoid doing something |
Edna's trying to get out of working the night shift. |
| get over |
To recover from (illness, disappointment) |
Has she gotten over the flu? |
| get rid of |
To eliminate |
Please get rid of that old t-shirt. It's so ragged. |
| Get through |
To overcome or endure |
It was very difficult for her to get through all of it alone. |
| get together |
To meet each other |
Let's get together for your birthday on Saturday. |
| get up |
To rise, leave bed |
Will you please get up? You've got a class in 20 minutes. |
| Give away |
distribute |
She has given away jewellery worth thousands of Rupees. |
| give in |
To cease opposition; yield |
We will never give in to the terrorists demands. |
| Give out |
announce verbally, emit |
It was given out that she had failed. |
| give up |
To stop doing something |
Morris gave up drinking 10 years ago. |
| Give way |
collapse under pressure, break |
The contractor was charged with negligence when the roof of a new building gave way. |
| Given to |
accustomed to |
He is given to smoking. |
| Go about |
To keep oneself busy with something |
My brother just goes about his work; he never has time for the family. |
| Go back on |
withdraw, back out |
One should not go back on one's promise. |
| Go in for |
buy, practise, to enter a contest |
I thought of going in for teaching. |
| Go off |
explode and be discharged |
When he was cleaning his gun it went off and killed him. |
| Go on |
continue |
There is no need to go on arguing about it. |
| Go over |
examine carefully |
On going over the balance sheet of the company the auditors have found serious mistakes. |
| go through |
To experience |
Andy went through a lot of pain after his mother died. |
| Go through with |
To proceed or continue with |
My mom and dad decided to?go through with?the demolition of our ancestral house. |
| Go up |
rise, increase |
As a result of a sharp rise in prices the price of washing soap has gone up. |
| Goof around |
To play or fool around |
The children were goofing around with their grandparents. |
| Grow apart |
To become estranged gradually |
They were very close but they grew apart over the years. |
| grow up |
To spend one's childhood; develop; become an adult |
He's like Peter Pan. He never really grew up at all., |
