16 VERB If something that has continued for some time gets to you, it starts causing you to suffer. □ [V + to ] That's the first time I lost my cool in 20 years in this job. This whole thing's getting to me.
17 VERB [no passive] If something gets you, it annoys you. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n] What gets me is the attitude of so many of the people.
➋ get ◆◆◆ /ge t/ (gets , getting , got or gotten )
1 VERB If you get something that you want or need, you obtain it. □ [V n] I got a job at the sawmill. □ [V n] He had been having trouble getting a hotel room. □ [V n n] I asked him to get me some information. [Also V n + for ]
2 VERB If you get something, you receive it or are given it. □ [V n] I'm getting a bike for my birthday. □ [V n] He gets a lot of letters from women.
3 VERB If you get someone or something, you go and bring them to a particular place. □ [V n] I came down this morning to get the newspaper. □ [V n n] Go and get me a large brandy. □ [V n + for ] Go and get your daddy for me.
4 VERB If you get a meal, you prepare it. □ [V n] She was getting breakfast as usual.
5 VERB If you get a particular result, you obtain it from some action that you take, or from a calculation or experiment. □ [V n] You could run that race again and get a different result each time. □ [V n] What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
6 VERB If you get a particular price for something that you sell, you obtain that amount of money by selling it. □ [V n + for ] He can't get a good price for his crops.
7 VERB If you get the time or opportunity to do something, you have the time or opportunity to do it. □ [V n] You get time to think in prison. □ [V n] Whenever I get the chance I go to Maxim's for dinner.
8 VERB 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. □ [V n] I get the feeling that you're an honest man. □ [V n] The study is an attempt to get a better idea of why people live where they do.
9 VERB If you get a feeling or benefit from an activity or experience, the activity or experience gives you that feeling or benefit. □ [V n] Charles got a shock when he saw him. □ [V n + out of/from ] She gets enormous pleasure out of working freelance.
10 VERB If you get a look, view, or glimpse of something, you manage to see it. □ [V n] Young men climbed on buses and fences to get a better view. □ [V n] Crowds shouted and pushed to get a glimpse of their hero.
11 VERB If a place gets a particular type of weather, it has that type of weather. □ [V n] Riyadh got 25 mm of rain in just 12 hours. □ [V n] Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet.
12 VERB If you get a joke or get the point of something that is said, you understand it. □ [V n] Did you get that joke, Ann? I'll explain later. □ [V n] You don't seem to get the point.
13 VERB If you get an illness or disease, you become ill with it. □ [V n] When I was five I got measles.
14 VERB When you get a train, bus, plane, or boat, you leave a place on a particular train, bus, plane, or boat. □ [V n] What time are you getting your train?
15 VERB If you get a person or animal, you succeed in catching, killing, or hitting them. □ [V n] Take it easy. We've got him. He's not going to kill anyone else.
16 → see also getting , got
➌ get ◆◆◆ /ge t/ (gets , getting , got or gotten )
1 PHRASE 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. □ Consort has a population of 714 and is about as rural and isolated as you can get.
2 PHRASE 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. [INFORMAL , EMPHASIS ] □ There is no getting away from the fact that he is on the left of the party.
3 PHRASE 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. □ …the ravishing island of Ischia, where rich Italians get away from it all.
4 CONVENTION Get is used in rude expressions like get stuffed and get lost to express contempt, disagreement, or refusal to do something. [RUDE , FEELINGS ]
5 PHRASE You can say get you to show that you think someone is acting as if they are more important, rich, or successful than they really are. [INFORMAL ] □ Get you in your fancy clothes!
6 PHRASE You can say, for example, ' How lucky can you get? ' or ' How stupid can you get? ' to show your surprise that anyone could be as lucky or stupid as the person that you are talking about. [INFORMAL , FEELINGS ] □ I mean, how crazy can you get?
7 PHRASE You can use you get instead of 'there is' or 'there are' to say that something exists, happens, or can be experienced. [SPOKEN ] □ You get a lot of things like that now, don't you? □ That's where you get some differences of opinion.
▸ get about
1 PHRASAL VERB If you get about , you go to different places and visit different people. □ [V P ] So you're getting about a bit again? Not shutting yourself away?