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Get back   /gɛt bæk/   Listen
Get back

verb
1.
Recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost.  Synonym: win back.  "He got back his son from the kidnappers"
2.
Take revenge or even out a score.  Synonym: get even.
3.
Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury.  Synonym: settle.






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"Get back" Quotes from Famous Books



... time; and never wrote home, but saved it all up to tell when he should get back. Twice, with proper modesty and decency, he proposed to end his visit, but the Commodore said, "No—wait; leave it to me; I'll tell you when ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... against it. If your physical health failed, and you had the means, you would go and spend the summer in Germany, and the winter in Italy, and you would think it a very cheap outlay if you had to go all round the earth to get back your physical health. Have you made any effort, any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health? No, you have not taken ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... they're some easy, havin' no more jedgment as to the valyoo of a hand than Steve Stevenson, an' Steve would take a pa'r of nines an' bet 'em higher than a cat's back. We allers recovers our dinero, but thar's time an' sleep we lose an' don't get back. ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis

... it all back and put him in his former position. Villard made his great rally; he made money out of the electric light; and he got back control of the Northern Pacific. Under no circumstances can a hustler be kept down. If he is only square, he is bound to get back on his feet. Villard has often been blamed and severely criticised, but he was not the only one to blame. His engineers had spent $20,000,000 too much in building the road, and it was not his fault ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... "I won't get back too soon," Tom decided. "If we are watched at all it wouldn't do to have me appear too much interested in ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock


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