get back (verb)
101ˌget sth ˈback — phrasal verb to receive or have something again after a time when it was taken away from you or lost She left her briefcase on the train and she doesn t know how to get it back.[/ex] …
102back into — phrasal : to get into inadvertently * * * back into [phrasal verb] back into (something) : to become involved in (something) without planning to become involved He backed into the antiques business almost by accident when he sold some old… …
103get — [13] Get, now one of the most pervasive of English words, has only been in the language for the (comparatively) short period of 800 years. It was borrowed from Old Norse geta (although a related, hundred per cent English get, which occurs in… …
104ˌget ˈoff (sb/sth) — phrasal verb used for telling someone to stop touching someone or something Get off – you re hurting my back.[/ex] Get off the grass right now![/ex] …
105get — [13] Get, now one of the most pervasive of English words, has only been in the language for the (comparatively) short period of 800 years. It was borrowed from Old Norse geta (although a related, hundred per cent English get, which occurs in… …
106get up to — PHRASAL VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone gets up to something, you mean that they do it and you do not approve of it. [BRIT, mainly SPOKEN] [V P P n] They get up to all sorts behind your back …
107ˌback ˈoff — phrasal verb to move backwards in order to get further away from something …
108ˌget sb ˈback — phrasal verb to hurt or upset someone because they have hurt or upset you …
109claw back — transitive verb ( s) chiefly Britain : to get back (as money) by strenuous or forceful means (as taxation) increases for farm spending … will have to be clawed back Economist • clawback ˈ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ noun chiefly Britain * * * claw back [phrasal… …
110take back — I retract, recant (see nullification). II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To regain] Syn. retrieve, get back, reclaim; see recover 1 . 2. [To restrict] Syn. draw in, retire, pull in; see remove 1 , withdraw 2 . 3. [To disavow] Syn. retract, back down,… …
