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Get Around To

Definition: Get Around To

Get Around To

Verb

1. Do something despite obstacles such as lack of time: "He finally got around to painting the windows".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Get Around To

English words defined with "get around to": Be-, by-and-byget about, get aroundLancashire style wrestlingturn around. (references)
Specialty definitions using "get around to": 6502Ada 95demosceneIBM 1620link farmMicrosoftORPHEUSravs, Real Programmers Don't Use PascalstoryTroll-O-Meter, Turing tar-pit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Get Around To

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah, well, by the time you get around to winning, there will be no forest. (In a Heartbeat; writing credit: Melissa R. Byer)

I was wondering when you would get around to that. (Rehearsal for Murder; writing credit: Richard Levinson; William Link)

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

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Spoken Usage: Get Around To

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Paul Harvey

Well, maybe I wasn't reading the clock as accurately as you do and I'd wait for the secondhand to get around to where it belonged and finished with good day.

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

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Modern Translations: Get Around To

Language Translations for "get around to"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

nekilát vminek (have a go at sg, to get around to sg, to go about), hozzáfog vmihez (got, to get, to get around to sg, to get doing sg, to go about). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etgay arounday otay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Get Around To

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: detonator, outranged, rattooned.

-3 letters: attorned, dragonet, garotted, outraged, outrange, outrated, outtrade, ragouted, ratooned, tetragon, truanted, trudgeon, tutorage, unrooted.

-4 letters: aground, arnotto, attuned, daunter, dogtrot, donator, dragnet, dragoon, duotone, gadroon, garoted, garotte, gaunter, granted, groaned, grouted, grunted, grutten, guerdon, natured, negator, notated, nutated, odonate, odorant, oregano, orotund, outdare, outdate, outdoer, outdone, outdrag, outearn, outgone.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Get Around To


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

47 65 74      41 72 6F 75 6E 64      54 6F

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

        

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

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0074      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064      0054 006F

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

417186235848187807025481

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INDEX

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


  

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