Examples of 'get by' in a sentenceget by
- As long as she could get by on her bank loan, she didn't see any point in giving up her independence.
- Or for that matter enough of a case to get by any Crown prosecutor worth his salt.
- Mister, excuse me, she said, but your car's in the middle of the road, people can't get by.
: : "Get on the bit!" is a phrase my father used at least 50 million times on us kids when we were growing up. It meant to quit fooling around, and tend to the business at hand. : : My father thought it was an expression he picked up in the US Cavalry, when he served with them shortly before and into WWII.
if someone or something gets on your nerves, they make you feel annoyed or nervous. His constant humming is really beginning to get on my nerves. Synonyms and related words. + To make someone angry or annoyed.
1 : to come or go again to a person, place, or condition : return, revert getting back to the main topic of the lecture. 2 : to gain revenge : retaliate —usually used with at. transitive verb. : to regain possession of : recover.
to make someone not want to do something, or to make someone not like someone or something. Lack of parking space was putting potential customers off. Robert's attitude towards women really puts me off. put someone off someone/something: I put him off the idea of going shopping with me.
get along. When you get along with someone, you're friendly or compatible with them. A babysitter might promise to take his charges out for ice cream if they can get along with each other for an hour. Some brothers and sisters get along well, while others fight like cats and dogs.
Definition of take on. transitive verb. 1a : to begin to perform or deal with : undertake took on new responsibilities. b : to contend with as an opponent took on the neighborhood bully. 2 : engage, hire.
To succeed in making contact with someone or something; reach someone or something: I tried to get through to an operator, but I couldn't get past the recording. If the line is busy, keep calling until you get through.
Definition of get out. intransitive verb. 1 : leave, escape doubted that he would get out alive. 2 : to become known : leak out their secret got out.
Meaning of do without something/someone in English
to manage, work, or perform successfully without having someone or something present: The country cannot do without foreign investment.hand in. 1. phrasal verb. If you hand in something such as homework or something that you have found, you give it to a teacher, police officer, or other person in authority.
Stands for "Information Technology," and is pronounced "I.T." It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies. That means the term "IT," already highly overused, is here to stay.
What are we going to eat? Tengo hambre.
get around to (doing something) To "get around to" doing something means to finally do it after a long time. You can use this phrase when someone is busy: Just check this over and send me your response whenever you can get around to it.
Is is a verb? Is is what is known as a state of being verb. State of being verbs do not express any specific activity or action but instead describe existence. The most common state of being verb is to be, along with its conjugations (is, am, are, was, were, being, been).
Getting on one's nerves. Indicates that the person is strongly annoyed by someone/something. Getting on one's last nerve. Indicates that the person has been so annoyed (maybe over a period of time) that he is on the edge to snap.
have it off (with someone)to have sex with someone. Synonyms and related words. + To have sex. sleep with.
have a nerve. phrase. If you say that someone has a nerve or has the nerve to do something, you are criticizing them for doing something which you feel they had no right to do. [informal, disapproval] He told his critics they had a nerve complaining about him.
get off Sentence Examples
- If you want to wait until I get off work, I'll try to leave a little early so we won't get back so late.
- The two young women didn't get off at that stop.
- What time do you get off?
- All right, I get off at nine.
- I get off on killing you idiots, she said in the same calm voice she used with Jonny.
Do the math is a fairly recently coined slang phrase that has entered the mainstream rather rapidly. Do the math means to add up facts and figures in order to come to a conclusion. Do the math might quite literally be a demand to analyze numbers in order to make a decision on whether to proceed on a project.
It's Up To You. Meaning/Usage: Used to tell a person that they are the one to make a decision. Explanation: "Up to" is commonly used to indicate a decision. It is common to say, "up to her," or "up to them," or "up to me." "It's up to you, but I don't think we should bother him."
The addition of up helps form new verbs, called prepositional or phrasal verbs. The meaning varies depending on the verb. Sometimes there is more than one meaning, often the meaning is entirely different from the verb alone. When you learn phrasal verbs, you generally need to think of them and learn them as new verbs.
As verbs the difference between get and gets
is that get is (label) to obtain; to acquire while gets is (get).As a noun, 'get' is most often used in writing about sports, entertainment, and politics, where it describes "someone or something gotten or obtained" and "the act of getting or obtaining someone or something."
