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Get a line   /gɛt ə laɪn/   Listen
Get a line

verb
1.
Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.  Synonyms: discover, find out, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see.  "I see that you have been promoted"






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"Get a line" Quotes from Famous Books



... like you, must know a lot of Launcelots." When Eastman only laughed, the younger man squirmed about in his chair. He spoke again hastily, as if he were embarrassed. "Your military friend may have had personal experiences, however, that his friends couldn't possibly get a line on. He may accidentally have come to a place where he saw himself in too unpleasant a light. I believe people can be chilled by a ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... he heard one say something which he never forgot. "Must 'a' been Gary's shot that downed the o1e man. Gary knowed the layout and where he could get a line on the window." ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... pauses at the end of each line, it is unbroken from beginning to end. The first part of a movement might be compared to the first line of a song: there is a pause, but we expect and get the second line; there is another pause, and we get a line which is analogous to the "working-out" section, and the last line, ending in the original key if not on the same note, corresponds to the final section of the movement, after which we expect nothing more, ...
— Haydn • John F. Runciman

... write to you. Do not ask me; I will not. But after each battle I have managed somehow to get a line to my mother. She will tell you that I am living, well and living. I do not think that I shall die—no, not till Maury Stafford and ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... have, Hugh, and there are other surprises coming for them, too. I noticed that you cut out all play while the Keyport chap was with us. Didn't want him to get a line on our ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson



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