CPE 6 Flashcards
get about
-to move from place to place or from person to person, to be able to go to different places without difficulty, especially if you are old or ill
Ex: She gets about with the help of a stick.
- if news or information gets about, it is told to a lot of people
Ex: I don’t really want this to get about.
get across (to somebody) | get something across (to somebody)
-to communicate an idea or message successfully
Ex: Our ideas are better and we need to find a different way of getting that across.
-to make someone understand or believe something
Ex: We have yet to clearly get across the message that we’ve got this indepth set of products.
get ahead in sth
to be successful in the work that you do (in business, job or society)
Ex: If you are willing to work hard, you will get ahead in this organisation.
get along with/on with
-to be on friendly terms with
Ex: I don’t really get along with my sister’s husband.
get at
-get at someone: to criticize a person repeatedly/to influence a person illegally, usually by offering them money or threatening them
Ex: He keeps getting at me and I really don’t know what I’ve done wrong.
-get at something: to reach or obtain something, especially something that is difficult to get/to suggest or express something in a way that is not direct or clear/to learn or find out something/mean
Ex: I’ve put the cake on a high shelf where he can’t get at it.
get away with something
-to succeed in avoiding punishment for something
Ex: If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn’t pay my taxes at all.
-to do something successfully although it is not the best way of doing it
Ex: In these fraud cases, prosecutors can’t get away with going only for the mid-level guys, they have to go to the top.
get by (on/in/with something)
-to be able to live or deal with a situation with difficulty, usually by having just enough of something you need, such as money, knowledge, equipment
Ex: How does she get by on such a small salary?
get somebody down
-to make somebody feel sad or depressed
Ex: The chaos in his house was starting to get him down.
-get something down: to write something, especially something that someone has said
Ex: I didn’t manage to get down the last thing she said, about the meeting.
-get something down (someone): to succeed in swallowing something although it is difficult
Ex: Her throat was so swollen that she couldn’t get the tablets down.
get something off
-to send a letter or parcel to someone
Ex: I got that letter off this morning.
-to leave a place, usually in order to start a journey
-to leave work with permission, usually at the end of the day
used especially to tell somebody to stop touching you or another person
-to go to sleep
-to stop discussing a particular subject; to make somebody do this
-to have no or almost no injuries in an accident (get off with something)
get (someone) off (something)/get off (lightly/easy) with something
-to avoid punishment, or to help another person to avoid punishment for something
Ex: He got off with a suspended sentence of three years for practicing medicine without a license.
get on (well with)
- used to talk or ask about how well somebody is doing in a particular situation, make progress
get on with
-to continue doing something, especially after you have been interrupted
Ex: Be quiet and get on with your work.
get out of doing something
-to avoid a responsibility or duty
Ex: I wish I could get out of going to that meeting.
-to stop having a particular habit
Ex: I can’t get out of the habit of waking at six in the morning.
-get something out of somebody: to persuade somebody to tell or give you something, especially by force
Ex: The police finally got a confession out of her.
-get something out of somebody/something: to gain or obtain something good from somebody/something
get over
-to get better after an illness, or feel better after something or someone has made you unhappy
Ex: He was disappointed at not getting the job, but he’ll get over it.
-to deal with or gain control of something
-to make something clear to somebody
-to complete something unpleasant but necessary
get round
-to persuade somebody to agree or to do what you want, usually by doing nice things for them
Ex: She knows how to get round her dad.
-to deal with a problem successfully
get round to doing something
-to find the time to do something
Ex: I hope to get round to answering your letter next week.
get through (to somebody)
-to make contact with somebody by phone
Ex: I tried calling you several times but I couldn’t get through.
-to use up a large amount of something
-to manage to do or complete something
-to be successful in an exam, etc.
-to be officially accepted; to make something be officially accepted
-to reach somebody
get up to
-to be busy with something, especially something surprising or unpleasant
Ex: She’s been getting up to her old tricks again!
-to reach a particular point
Ex: We got up to page 72 last lesson.
give (oneself) up
-surrender
-to stop having a friendship with someone
Ex: She seems to have given up all her old friends.
-to stop expecting that someone will arrive
Ex: I’ve been waiting half an hour - I’d almost given up on you.
-give yourself up: to allow the police or an enemy to take you as a prisoner
Ex; The gunman gave himself up to the police.
give away
-give something/somebody away: to make known something that somebody wants to keep secret
Ex: It was supposed to be a surprise but the children gave the game away.
-to give something as a gift
Ex: He gave away most of his money to charity.
give in
-give in (to somebody/something): to admit that you have been defeated by somebody/something
-to agree to do something that you do not want to do
-give something in (to somebody): to hand over something to somebody in authority
Ex: Please give your work in before Monday.
-yield: to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food, or information
give off
-to produce something such as a smell, heat, light, etc.
Ex: The flowers gave off a fragrant perfume.
-to produce something as a result of a natural process
Ex: The forest fire gave off thick black smoke.
give out
-to come to an end; to be completely used up
Ex: After a month their food supplies gave out.
-to stop working
Ex: One of the plane’s engines gave out in mid-air.
-to give something to a lot of people
Ex: The teacher gave out the exam papers.
-to tell people about something or broadcast something
give up
-to stop trying to do something
Ex: They gave up without a fight.
-to believe that somebody is never going to arrive, get better, be found, etc.
Ex: We hadn’t heard from him for so long, we’d given him up for dead.
-to stop having a relationship with somebody
-to hand something over to somebody else
-to offer yourself/somebody to be captured by somebody in authority (give yourself/somebody up (to somebody)