get behind
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Verb | 1. | get behind - to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" lag, fall back, fall behind, dawdle - hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. |
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get
verb1. To come into possession of:
3. To acquire as a result of one's behavior or effort:
Informal: rate.
5. To receive, as wages, for one's labor:
Informal: pull down.
Idioms: earn a living, earn one's keep.
6. To succeed in communicating with:
Idioms: catch up with , get hold of, get in touch with, get through to, get to.
8. To perceive and recognize the meaning of:
accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, grasp, make out, read, see, sense, take, take in, understand.
Informal: savvy.
Slang: dig.
Chiefly British: twig.
Scots: ken.
Idioms: get a handle on, get the picture.
12. Informal. To leave hastily:
13. To succeed in causing (a person) to act in a certain way:
argue into, bring, bring around (or round), convince, induce, persuade, prevail on (or upon), sell (on), talk into.
15. To evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from.Also used with to:
get acrossphrasal verb
get aheadphrasal verb
get along
2. To go forward, especially toward a conclusion:
get around
1. To keep away from:
Idioms: fight shy of, give a wide berth to, have no truck with, keep clear of.
get away
1. To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation:
Informal: skip (out).
Slang: lam.
Regional: absquatulate.
Idioms: blow the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam.
get behind
To aid the cause of by approving or favoring:
advocate, back, champion, endorse, plump for, recommend, side with, stand behind, stand by, support, uphold.
Idioms: align oneself with, go to bat for, take the part of.
get by
phrasal verb
get in
phrasal verb
get off
phrasal verb
get on
1. To put (an article of clothing) on one's person:
get out
1. To leave hastily:
get tophrasal verb
get together
1. To bring together:
2. To come together:
3. To come together face-to-face by arrangement:
get up
noun
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