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Definition of Get around to
1. Verb. Do something despite obstacles such as lack of time. "He finally got around to painting the windows"
Definition of Get around to
1. Verb. To eventually begin or return to some procrastinated task. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Around To
Literary usage of Get around to
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Postal Salaries: Hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, First [second] Session by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1920)
"... to be worked off by a postal clerk as soon as one could get around to it.
Twenty of these noncertified substitutes on a tour, dispatching 2 out of 15 ..."
2. "Little Ten-minutes": Or, A Pastor's Talks with His Children by Frank Tappan Bayley (1909)
"But, dear children, suppose you just get around to the sunny side of it and stop
to think that you're learning something each day, if you are faithful, ..."
3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1905)
"... where he was hanging on the outside, or giving him sufficient time to get
around to the other side of the train, where he could get in where it was open ..."
4. Annual Proceedings: Addresses, Reports, Bibliographies and Discussions (1917)
"... that if we do not get around through our own shops pretty often, and recently
that has been particularly true—if we do not get around to our own shops, ..."
5. The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the by Angelo Heilprin (1893)
"61° 50' W.—7 PM saw no chance to get to Cape York in shore, turned ship and went
full speed to the southward to try to get around to the westward—Midnight ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Traveling Engineers' Association, Canadian School Trustees' Association (1896)
"... may not get around to the superintendent of motive power for four or five
days, and a duplicate goes to the master mechanic, but my idea of this is that ..."
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