Get By

Definitions: Get By

Get By

Verb

1. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day".

2. Pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race".

3. Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities".

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

Synonyms: Get By

Crosswords: Get By

Sorry, you can't get by without clearance. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich)

Oh I think we'll get by. (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Segu�)

To Get By (Black or White; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson)

I like a thug in my life to get by (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

That I can't get by with my 9 to 5 (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

I can't get by if we're not together (I Don't Want To Live Without You; performing artist: Foreigner)

Called hard to get by its real name (Jane; performing artist: Jefferson Starship)

I'll Get by (1950)

We'll Get By (1975)

You're All I Need To Get By (performing artist: Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell)

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

Books

• After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get by in Rustbelt America (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

You Can't Get AIDS by Giving Blood. : What can you get by giving blood? Satisfaction.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Can they get by with it?.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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

Expressions using "get by": get by bargaining ♦ get by begging ♦ get by beguilement ♦ get by deceit ♦ get by exchange ♦ To get by heart. Additional references.

Albanian

kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تدبر (contrive, engineering, get along, meditation, see), ‏راعى (consider, consult, keep, observe, pay attention). (various references)

Bulgarian 

минавам (elapse, flow, go, go by, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, pass through, range, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), промъквам се край (steal by), преживявам някак си (wear through). (various references)

Chinese 

對付 (get by with what one has, handle; deal with). (various references)

Czech

proklouznout (slip), projít (come through, get through, go over, go through, perambulate), přejít kolem, obstát (hold one's own, hold up, hold water), obejít se. (various references)

French

se débrouiller (get along). (various references)

German

vorbeikommen (call in, call round, come by, come round, drop across, drop around, drop by, drop in, get past, go past, look in, pass, stop by), sich einrichten (furnish one's house, get along, settle), langen (be enough, clout, go round, hand, manage, reach, touch), durchkommen (be announced, come out, come past, come through, get through, muddle through, pass, pull through, succeed, to pull through), durchhelfen, durchbringen (blow, bring through, get through, pull round, pull through, put through, see through), auskommen (come out, get on, manage, manage with, manage-with). (various references)

Greek 

περνώ (come across, cross, fare, go by, go on, go through, pass, pass through, spend time, step over, surpass, thread, while), τα βγάζω πέρα (carry it off, carry through, cope with, make ends meet). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סת�"ר (be arranged, be organized, get along, make out, manage). (various references)

Hungarian

megél (subsist, to contrive, to earn one's bread, to make a living by sg, to subsist), elhalad (pass, pass by, patter, to get by, to go by, to go past, to pass). (various references)

Italian

tirare avanti (scrape by, struggle on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遣り繰り算段 (managing to get by). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やりくりさ�"� �" (managing to get by). (various references)

Manx

faarjey (fare, to get by). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay ybay

Portuguese

retaliar (retaliate, revenge). (various references)

Russian 

проходить (come by, elapse, elapsed, go, go by, go through, move on, pass, pass away, pass through, penetrate, permeate, roll by, walk, walked, wear off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

provući se (pull through, scrape, scrape through, squeeze through, unthread), proći (come through, get off, go, go by, go past, go through, log, pass, pass by, pass through, run). (various references)

Spanish

pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), lograr pasar, eludir (avoid, blink, elude, evade, Miss, put by, shirk, slip), burlar la vigilancia de, burlar (chaff, circumvent, deceive, deride, dish, escape, hoax, hoodwink, jape, jest, live up, outflank, outsmart, outwit, spoof, taunt, trick), arreglarse (adapt, come to terms, fend for oneself, freshen oneself up, freshen up, get along, make out, make shift, manage, posh oneself up, preen, prim oneself up, shake down, smarten, smarten up, tidy, tidy up, titivate, trim up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

passera (come about, cross, go by, happen, occur, pass, pass by, pass through). (various references)

Turkish

hile ile elde etmek (finagle, get by deceit, obtain by fraud). (various references)

Ukranian 

проходити мимо (come by, go by, overpass, pass by). (various references)

Misspellings

"Get By" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: get bz. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: byte, gybe.

-2 letters: beg, bet, bey, bye, get, gey, teg, tye, yet.

-3 letters: be, by, et, ye.

+2 letters: biggety.

+3 letters: gigabyte, megabyte.

+4 letters: benignity, betraying, bigotedly, budgetary, eyebright, geobotany, gigabytes, megabytes, vegetably.

+5 letters: bayoneting, beatifying, bedirtying, eyebrights, legibility, obligately.

47 65 74      42 79

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000010 01111001

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#121

0047 0065 0074      0042 0079

41718623691