Phrasal verbs - to get

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get about

To be out of bed and beginning to walk again, as after an illness.

get across

1. To make understandable or clear: tried to get my point across.

2. To be convincing or understandable: How can I get across to the students?

get after

To urge or scold: You should get after them to mow the lawn.

get along

1. To be or continue to be on harmonious terms: gets along with the in-laws.

2. To manage or fare with reasonable success: can't get along on those wages.

3.

a. To make progress.

b. To advance, especially in years.

4. To go away; leave.

get around

1. To circumvent or evade: managed to get around the real issues.

2. Informal To convince or win over by flattering or cajoling.

3. To travel from place to place: It is hard to get around without a car.

4. To become known; circulate: Word got around.

get at

1. To touch or reach successfully: The cat hid where we couldn't get at it.

2. To try to make understandable; hint at or suggest: I don't know what you're getting at.

3. To discover or understand: tried to get at the cause of the problem.

4. Informal To bribe or influence by improper or illegal means: He got at the judge, and the charges were dismissed.

get away

1. To break free; escape.

2. To leave or go away: wanted to come along, but couldn't get away.

get back

To return to a person, place, or condition: getting back to the subject.

get by

1. To pass or outstrip.

2. To succeed at a level of minimal acceptibility or with the minimal amount of effort: just got by in college.

3. To succeed in managing; survive: We'll get by if we economize.

4. To be unnoticed or ignored by: The mistake got by the editor, but the proofreader caught it.

get down

1. To descend.

2. To give one's attention. Often used with to: Let's get down to work.

3. To exhaust, discourage, or depress: The heat was getting me down.

4. To swallow: got the pill down on the first try.

5. To describe in writing.

6. Informal To lose one's inhibitions; enjoy oneself wholeheartedly.

get in

1.

a. To enter.

b. To arrive: We got in late last night.

2. To become or cause to become involved: She got in with the wrong crowd. Repeated loans from the finance company got me deeper in debt.

3. To become accepted, as in a club.

4. To succeed in making or doing: got in six deliveries before noon.

get into

1. To become involved in: got into trouble by stealing cars.

2. Informal To be interested in: got into gourmet cooking.

get off

1. To start, as on a trip; leave.

2.

a. To fire (a round of ammunition, for example): got off two shots before the deer disappeared.

b. To write and send, as a letter.

3. To escape, as from punishment or danger: got off scot-free.

4. To obtain a release or lesser penalty for: The attorney got her client off with a slap on the wrist.

5. Slang To act or speak with effrontery. Used in the imperative to express contempt or disdainful disbelief.

6. Slang To have an orgasm.

7. Slang

a. To feel great pleasure or gratification.

b. To experience euphoria, for example, as a result of taking a drug.

8. To get permission to leave one's workplace: got off early and went fishing.

get on

1. To be or continue on harmonious terms: gets on well with the neighbors.

2. To manage or fare with reasonable success.

3.

a. To make progress; continue: get on with a performance.

b. To advance in years.

4. To acquire understanding or knowledge: got on to the con game.

get out

1.

a. To leave or escape.

b. To cause to leave or escape.

2. To become known: Somehow the secret got out.

3. To publish, as a newspaper.

get over

1. To prevail against; overcome.

2. To recover from: finally got over the divorce.

3. To get across.

get through

1. To arrive at the end of; finish or complete.

2.

a. To succeed in making contact; reach.

b. To make oneself understood.

get to

1.

a. To begin. Used with the present participle: got to reminiscing.

b. To start to deal with: didn't get to the housework until Sunday.

2. To influence or affect, especially adversely: The noise really gets to me.

get together

1. To bring together; gather.

2. To come together.

3. To arrive at an agreement.

get up

1.

a. To arise from bed or rise to one's feet.

b. To climb.

2. To act as the creator or organizer of: got up a petition against rezoning.

3. To dress or adorn: She got herself up in a bizarre outfit.

4. To find within oneself: got up the nerve to quit.

Idioms:

get around to

To find the time or occasion for.

get away with

To escape the consequences of (a blameworthy act, for example): got away with cheating.

get back at

To take revenge on.

get cracking

To begin to work; get started.

get even

To obtain revenge.

get even with

To repay with an equivalent act, as for revenge.

get going

To make a beginning; get started.

get hold/ahold of

1. To bring into one's grasp, possession, or control.

2. To communicate with, especially by telephone.

get it Informal

To be punished or scolded.

get it on Slang

1. To become filled with energy or excitement.

2. To engage in sexual intercourse.

get nowhere

To make no progress.

get (one's) Informal

To receive one's due punishment: After sassing his parents, he really got his.

get on the stick

To begin to work.

get out of

To gain release from the obligation of: She tried to get out of taking her brother to the mall. He couldn't get out of his date on Saturday.

get (someone's) goat

To make angry or vexed.

get somewhere Informal

To make progress.

get there Informal

To make progress or achieve success.

get wind of

To learn of: got wind of the scheme.

Fonte: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/get

Phrasal Verbs: cut

Algumas expressões utilizadas iniciando com cut

Phrasal Verbs

cut back

1. To shorten by cutting; prune.

2. To reduce or decrease: cut back production.

cut down

1. To kill or strike down.

2. To alter by removing extra or additional fittings: cut down a car for racing.

3. To reduce the amount taken or used: cutting down on one's intake of rich foods.

cut in

1. To move into a line of people or things out of turn.

2. To interrupt: During the debate my opponent kept cutting in.

3. To interrupt a dancing couple in order to dance with one of them.

4. To connect or become connected into an electrical circuit.

5. To mix in with or as if with cutting motions: Measure out the flour and use a pair of knives to cut the shortening in

6. To include, especially among those profiting.

cut off

1. To separate from others; isolate.

2. To stop suddenly; discontinue.

3. To shut off; bar.

4. To interrupt the course or passage of: The infielder cut off the throw to the plate.

5. To interrupt or break the line of communication of: The telephone operator cut us off.

6. To disinherit: cut their heirs off without a cent.

cut out

1. To remove by or as if by cutting.

2. To form or shape by or as if by cutting.

3. To take the place of; supplant.

4. To suit or fit by nature: I'm not cut out to be a hero.

5. To assign beforehand or by necessity; predetermine: We've got our work cut out for us.

6. To deprive: felt cut out of all the fun.

7. To stop; cease.

8. Informal To depart hastily.

9. Chiefly Southern U.S. To turn off (a light or television set).

cut up Informal

1. To behave in a playful, comic, or boisterous way; clown.

2. To criticize severely.

Idioms

cut a fat hog Texas

To take on more than one is able to accomplish: "Boy, has he cut a fat hog, as they say down home" Hughes Rudd.

cut a wide swath

To make a big display; draw much attention.

cut both ways

To have both favorable and unfavorable results or implications.

cut corners

To do something in the easiest or most inexpensive way.

cut down to size

To deflate the self-importance of.

cut it Informal

To perform up to expectations or a required standard; be acceptable.

cut loose

To speak or act without restraint: cut loose with a string of curses.

cut no ice

To make no effect or impression: an objection that cut no ice with management.

cut off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face

To injure oneself in taking revenge against another.

cut (one's) losses

To withdraw from a losing situation.

cut (one's) teeth on

To learn or do as a beginner or at the start of one's career.

cut short

To stop before the end; abbreviate.

cut the cheese Vulgar Slang

To expel intestinal gas.

cut the mustard

To perform up to expectations or to a required standard.

cut to the chase

To get to the matter at hand.

Fonte: http://www.thefreedictionary.com