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Hello, this is Jack from 
tofluency.com. 

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This is episode 31 of the To 
Fluency podcast. 

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Today you're going to learn 
various phrasal verbs with the 

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word get. 
Now we have made a lesson on how

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to use get in a previous 
episode, so I'll leave a link or

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in the description. 
I'll tell you which episode this

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is so you can listen to that as 
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But yeah, today we're going to 
focus on phrasal verbs. 

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Things like get away with, get 
around to get over, get rid of, 

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get used to, etcetera. 
But before we do that, there are

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OK, so let's talk about phrasal 

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verbs now and also know that 
these phrasal verbs are in the 

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description below. 
So you can read these if you 

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want to, but I imagine you're 
listening to this while you're 

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doing something else or maybe 
you're in bed about to go to 

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sleep. 
But wherever you are, however 

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you are listening. 
Let's learn some phrasal verbs. 

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The first one is getaway. 
Getaway. 

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And again, all these phrasal 
verbs have get in them. 

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Number one is getaway. 
There are two meanings here, 2 

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definitions. 
The first one is to go somewhere

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for a rest or a vacation. 
So you might hear me say let's 

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try and get away at the end of 
the month. 

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It's been a tough month. 
Let's try and get away at the 

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end of the month. 
So this means to go somewhere 

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for a vacation. 
The second definition is to 

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escape. 
So you can think about a bad 

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person, a criminal who has done 
something wrong and the police 

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are trying to get him. 
The example here is they try to 

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grab him, but he got away. 
They tried to grab him, but he 

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got away. 
So he escaped from the police. 

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He got away from the police. 
So that's get away now #2 is get

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away with, get away with. 
And to get away with something 

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means to avoid getting caught 
when you're doing something bad.

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So it does sound a little bit 
similar to get away when it 

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comes to escaping. 
But listen to this example, OK, 

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we got away with not paying for 
the train. 

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We got away with not paying for 
the train. 

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So in this example, you didn't 
get caught. 

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You didn't have to pay for the 
train because nobody asked you 

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for the money because sometimes 
or in the past in the UK, you 

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could get on a train and then 
pay while you are on the train. 

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But sometimes the ticket people 
don't come and ask you for money

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so you can get away with paying,
not paying for the train. 

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It's harder to do these days 
because most train stations now 

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have ticket barriers where you 
have to enter your ticket in 

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order to get on the train. 
And another example is you can 

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think about somebody who's 
always doing something bad but 

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never really getting in trouble.
So you can say I don't know how 

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he gets away with it, I don't 
know how he gets away with it #3

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is get along with or get on 
with. 

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OK, get along or get on. 
Both of these phrasal verbs mean

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the same thing. 
And it's the definition here is 

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to like somebody and to have a 
good relationship with somebody.

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So you can imagine that you meet
somebody for the first time and 

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you can say, I think we're going
to get along with each other. 

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I think we're going to get along
with each other. 

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And if somebody is the type of 
person who seems to be friendly 

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with everyone, you can say he 
seems to get along with 

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everyone. 
He seems to get along with 

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everyone. 
And an example in the negative, 

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they didn't really get along. 
It's a shame. 

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They didn't really get along. 
It's a shame #4 is one that busy

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people use all the time to get 
around to to get around to doing

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something. 
And this means to do something 

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that you have intended to do for
a long time, but you just 

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haven't done it. 
For example, you might hear 

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someone say, I haven't got 
around to it yet. 

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I'm so sorry I haven't got 
around to doing it yet, or I 

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haven't got around to it yet. 
And another example is have you 

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got around to send in that form?
Have you got around to send in 

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that form? 
And it's a polite way to ask, 

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have you sent that form yet? 
Now #5 is get back. 

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Number one was get away and #5 
is get back and to get back. 

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Some ways to arrive home after a
trip to arrive home after a 

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trip. 
An example is, oh, I'm super 

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tired today because I got back 
late last night. 

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I'm super tired today because I 
got back late last night. 

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And asking about your neighbors.
When are The Smiths getting 

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back? 
When are The Smiths getting 

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back? 
So you want to know when they're

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getting back from their trip? 
Number six is get back to. 

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So another one with two extra 
words after get get back to and 

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this means to contact somebody 
later on to to give information 

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that might sound confusing, but 
if someone asks you, can you 

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find someone who can help me 
with this proposal? 

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You can say sure, I'll ask 
around and get back to you. 

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I'll ask around and get back to 
you. 

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So it means you're going to give
that person information at a 

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later time. 
But get back to can also mean to

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continue doing something that 
you had started earlier. 

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So let's just say you are you're
working and then somebody calls 

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you on the phone and you answer 
and you have a conversation. 

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But after a while you say, OK, 
I've got to go. 

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I need to get back to work. 
I need to get back to work or I 

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need to get back to finishing 
this video #7 is get over. 

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And this means to recover from 
something. 

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A lot of the time we use this 
when we're talking about 

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sickness and health. 
For example, I just can't seem 

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to get over this cold. 
I just can't seem to get over 

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this cold. 
Or when you're talking about 

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something to do with sports, you
can ask, have you got over the 

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loss yet? 
Have you got over the loss yet? 

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So you're asking somebody whose 
team had lost, have you 

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recovered from this? 
Do you feel better now or are 

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you still sad? 
Have you got over the loss yet 

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#8 is get rid of to get rid of. 
And I use this a lot. 

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And it means to dispose of 
something, to throw something 

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away. 
For example, should I keep this 

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jacket or just get rid of it? 
Should I keep this jacket or 

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just get rid of it? 
Another example, You didn't get 

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rid of that pen, did you? 
You didn't get rid of that pen, 

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did you? 
And this is true in my life. 

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We need to get rid of a lot of 
stuff. 

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We have stuff all over the 
house, stuff we don't need. 

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We need to get rid of a lot of 
stuff. 

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All right #9 #9 is get used to. 
This is very common again. 

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And this means to become 
accustomed to something, to get 

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used to something, to get used 
to doing something. 

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For example, in the UK, people 
drive on the left side of the 

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road, but in the US, people 
drive on the right. 

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And I can say when I moved to 
the US, it didn't take me long 

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to get used to driving on the 
right side of the road. 

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So it didn't take me long to get
used to it. 

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It didn't take me long to become
accustomed to this. 

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Now I've asked for more examples
on Instagram because I've posted

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a small lesson about this on 
Instagram. 

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You can follow me at to Fluency 
find me on Instagram. 

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And here are some of the 
examples. 

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Someone said I soon got used to 
working in the morning, which is

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a great example. 
Another one is how can you get 

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used to getting up so early? 
How can you get used to getting 

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up so early? 
And the last one, my work is 

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difficult, but I have to get 
used to it. 

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My work is difficult but I have 
to get used to it again. 

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Be sure to follow me on 
Instagram at to fluency and #10 

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The last one, get up to to get 
up to something. 

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And this means to do something. 
So you'll hear people in the US 

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and the UK ask, what did you get
up to at the weekend? 

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What did you get up to at the 
weekend? 

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And sometimes people respond by 
saying we didn't get up to much,

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we didn't get up to much. 
So this just means we didn't do 

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much. 
OK, so those are the 10 phrasal 

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verbs with get. 
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the episode where I talk about 
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a more general sense, then 
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