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Get into

verb

Get involved in or with. Synonym: tangle with.

To come or go into. Synonyms: come in, enter, get in, go in, go into, move into. Antonym: exit.

Secure a place in a college, university, etc.. Synonym: get in.

Familiarize oneself thoroughly with.

Put clothing on one's body. Synonyms: assume, don, put on, wear. "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"

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"Get into" Quotes from Famous Books

... parties of natives traveling all over the country gathering folk lore, and ethnographical particulars, but they get into a village and sit down for whole weeks at a time, drawing pay for doing nothing. I need an Englishman to go with them and keep ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... govern men, there is but one way, and it is eternal truth. Get into their skins. Try to realize their feelings. That is the true secret ...

— Indian speeches (1907-1909) • John Morley (AKA Viscount Morley)

... tried, howsomever, not a little to-night, I'm thinking. We were late as it was coming up from 'Put off shoal,' and this work with you made us still later, so that we shall have to be thankful if we get into Penmore harbour ...

— Adrift in a Boat • W.H.G. Kingston

... difficulty in finding a pair of hobbles for each, and not being able to do so, I left one in the mob without. This base reptile surreptitiously crawled away in the night by himself. As our camp was the most wretched dog-hole it was possible for a man to get into, in the midst of dense mallee, triodia, and large stones, I determined to escape from it, before looking for the now two missing animals. The water was completely exhausted. We moved away south-westerly for about three miles, to ...

— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... nothing for you, my good woman—go. Mr. Elliot! how did you come to allow these people to get into the establishment?" ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

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