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TO GET AWAY WITH

Definition: TO GET AWAY WITH

TO GET AWAY WITH

1. To carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Usage: TO GET AWAY WITH

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Screenplays

He couldn't hope to get away with it! (Firefox; writing credit: Craig Thomas; Alex Lasker)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TO GET AWAY WITH

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Books

  • 101 Ways to Get Away With Anything! (Malcolm in the Middle) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Spoken Usage: TO GET AWAY WITH

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Ann Richards

Yeah. Well, that sounds like a lot of politics to me, you know. I tell you what, if Bill Clinton had done that, they would have crucified him. But I wouldn't be surprised if Bush is able to get away with it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO GET AWAY WITH

Language Translations for "TO GET AWAY WITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

罷り通る (to go by, to let pass). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まかりとおる (to go by, to let pass). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etgay awayay ithway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO GET AWAY WITH

Proper Noun Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-i-o-t-t-t-w-w-y"

-5 letters: Whiteway.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GET AWAY WITH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 45 54      41 57 41 59      57 49 54 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001 00100000 01010111 01001001 01010100 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#87 &#65 &#89 &#32 &#87 &#73 &#84 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 0045 0054      0041 0057 0041 0059      0057 0049 0054 0048

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492413954235573559257435442

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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