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Get around to   /gɛt ərˈaʊnd tu/   Listen
Get around to

verb
1.
Do something despite obstacles such as lack of time.






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"Get around to" Quotes from Famous Books



... sentence or two, which by that time sounded just like nonsense because you'd read it over and over so many times to yourself before your chance came. And often you didn't even have a chance to do that, because the teacher didn't have time to get around to you at all, and you closed your book and put it back in your desk without having opened your mouth. Reading was one thing Elizabeth Ann had learned to do very well indeed, but she had learned it all by herself at home from much reading to herself. Aunt Frances ...
— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield

... happen sooner or later, old man. When the going really gets tough they always get around to sending a Gypsy. Only way to get ...
— No Moving Parts • Murray F. Yaco

... folks just like that in this world too," Susan continued, "'n' it beats me what the Lord makes 'em so for, for they'll talk 'n' talk 'n' wander all over every subjeck in Creation to come 'n' never even begin to get around to the point till you're clean gi'n out with listenin'. 'F the minister's wife hadn't come that day 'n' hadn't talked as she did, I might 'a' been left less wore out and, as a consequence, have told you that night what I ain't never told you yet, for it was strong ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner

... you had better go over to the camp there and get our axes. We'll have to cut a road through the cedars if we take these guns off," said Harry, tieing a handkershief around the gaping saber wound in his temple. "The rest of you get around to the right, and keep a sharp ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

... want to hear what I have to say," retorted Eph, with a slight flash of his eyes, "you'll have to wait until I get around to it." ...
— The Submarine Boys for the Flag - Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam • Victor G. Durham



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