Get Some

What is the obsession with prepositions in our language?  I remember, when I went to Italy for that year, being astounded that there was an entirely different verb for every get-plus-preposition we use in English.  Think about it:

  • get in (a car)
  • get in (a college)
  • get out (of a car)
  • get out (“Get OUT!  I don’t believe it!”)
  • get up (from bed)
  • get up (…you know)
  • get down (off a ladder)
  • get down (boogie)
  • get at (an internal organ during surgery)
  • get at (“What are you getting at?”)
  • get to (a destination)
  • get to (“She really gets to me.”)
  • get on (a plane, a train)
  • get on (one’s last nerve)
  • get off (a train)
  • get off (…what one might do after one gets up)
  • get over (a wall)
  • get over (“I’ll never get over him.”)
  • get across (a river)
  • get across (your point)
  • get behind (a blast shield)
  • get behind (a cause)
  • get between (two parked cars)
  • get between (“I don’t want my hatred of your mother to get between us.”)
  • get by (a person in a grocery aisle)
  • get by (survive on little money)
  • get through (a tunnel)
  • get through (a tough time)
  • get around (“Here we get around by Vespa.”)
  • get around (“That Amy…she gets around.”)

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