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Definition of Get behind
1. Verb. To lag or linger behind. "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
Generic synonyms: Dawdle, Fall Back, Fall Behind, Lag
Derivative terms: Trailer
Definition of Get behind
1. Verb. (context: literal meaning transitive) To move to a position behind (something). ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To give one's support to (a person, project etc.) ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To fail to keep to a schedule; to fall behind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Behind
Literary usage of Get behind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"By Senator SCOTT: Q. What did this man get behind a chimney for?—A. Dodging the
shots. Q. Dodging the shots?—A. I guess that was his idea. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"get behind the pump, yer honour,' says I, pulling my master by the coat. '
get behind the pump before you fire.' "And so he did; and when they blazed, ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1889)
"Authorities are utterly unable to get behind the Christ presented to us in the
... We cannot get behind the Christ Whom the Church worships to either a ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"But if he had > design to get behind them, that the mob might ... he might not
join the mob, corne down from towards SL Giles's, get behind the horse, ..."
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