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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



... accomplished. Perhaps she had left Paris. I told myself with some savageness that I did not know and did not care. From the first my presence in this luridly adventurous galley had been incongruous; I would get back with all despatch to the Ritz and ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... began road-makin'—dependin' on local supply for labor. 'Member that, Pussy? 'Rest of our chaps who'd had no look-in during the campaign didn't think there'd be any more of it, and were anxious to get back to India. But I'd been in two of these little rows before, and I had my suspicions. I engineered myself, summa ingenio, into command of a road-patrol—no shovellin', only marching up and down genteelly with a guard. They'd ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... Empire includes several hundred thousand Frenchmen, who want to get back under French control, a million or two Danes, who want once more to belong to Denmark, and several million Poles, who desire to see their country ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet

... point with slightly drawn brows. "I guess there's no hurry," he decided at length. "We'll get home first anyway. That's the main point. You won't be sorry to get back ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell

... ground extended, and then they slackened their pace as they began to rise the ascent. The idea then occurred to Marco, that perhaps he might clamber down over the fender to the pole, and then walk along upon that a little way till he could gather up the reins. Then he thought that if he could get back again with them to the driver's seat, perhaps he could stop the horses. Marco was an expert climber. He had learned this art in his gymnasium at New York; so that he had no fears in respect to his being able to get down and back again. The ...
— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott


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