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Get in   /gɛt ɪn/   Listen
Get in

verb
1.
To come or go into.  Synonyms: come in, enter, get into, go in, go into, move into.
2.
Succeed in a big way; get to the top.  Synonyms: arrive, go far, make it.  "I don't know whether I can make it in science!" , "You will go far, my boy!"
3.
Secure a place in a college, university, etc..  Synonym: get into.
4.
Of trains; move into (a station).  Synonyms: draw in, move in, pull in.



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"Get in" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good sup of brandy from the flask, and ate some food which I seemed to require. Then I told them the story, and cutting short their demonstrations of wonder and admiration, bade them place the Holy Flower in the canoe and get in themselves. Next with the help of Hans who poked out his fingers through the skin of the gorilla's arms, I carefully re-loaded the rifle, setting the last cap on the nipple. This done, I joined them in the canoe, taking my seat in the prow ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... he asserted. "I'll round up all our colts fit for breaking and try you on them. I'll get in most of the boys to watch the fun. It'll take about ten days to get ready. Meanwhile you can take out another bunch of heifers with new calves. It seems to suit you and the calves ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... exclaimed. "I thought as much. I didn't believe they would take too many chances. A stranger might get in and betray them." ...
— The boy Allies at Liege • Clair W. Hayes

... trackless round the capital of Brabant. Having gained the summit of the hill, and having stood and looked long over the cultured but lifeless campaign, I felt a wish to quit the high road, which I had hitherto followed, and get in among those tilled grounds—fertile as the beds of a Brobdignagian kitchen-garden—spreading far and wide even to the boundaries of the horizon, where, from a dusk green, distance changed them to a sullen blue, and confused their tints with those ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell

... Parkins," said Mrs. de Noel penitently; "I ought to have let you know that I changed my carriage at Carchester. I wanted to nurse a baby whose mother was looking ill and tired. I saw them on the platform, and then they got into a third-class carriage, so I thought the best way would be to get in with them." ...
— Cecilia de Noel • Lanoe Falconer


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