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clear filters
gain access
phrase
B2
To get the right or the means to enter.
gain experience
phrase
B2
To learn by doing something over time.
gap year
phrase
B2
The year off between school and university, often spent traveling.
get across
phrase
B2
To make an idea understood by others.
get ahead
phrase
B2
To become more successful than the people around you.
get along
phrase
B1
2 meanings
To have a friendly relationship with someone.
get around
phrase
B2
To travel from place to place; also, to dodge a rule cleverly.
get around to
phrase
B2
To finally do something you kept putting off.
get away with
phrase
B2
To escape blame or punishment for something.
get by
phrase
B2
To manage to survive with just barely enough.
get carried away
phrase
B2
To become so excited you lose control of yourself.
get down
/ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/
phrase
B2
To make somebody feel low.
get off
phrase
A2
2 meanings
To leave a vehicle.
get on like a house on fire
phrase
B2
To take to each other immediately and warmly.
get out
phrase
A2
2 meanings
To leave or escape from a place.
get the upper hand
phrase
B2
To gain the advantage over somebody.
get the wrong end of the stick
phrase
B2
To misunderstand what somebody meant.
get through
/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/
phrase
B2
2 meanings
To survive or endure a difficult period.
get through to
phrase
B2
To reach somebody, or to make them finally understand.
get your act together
phrase
B2
To organise yourself and start doing things properly.
get your head around
phrase
B2
To manage to understand something difficult.
get your own way
phrase
B2
To make things go exactly as you wanted.
give and take
phrase
B2
The mutual yielding that keeps a relationship working.
give away
phrase
B2
To give something for free; also, to accidentally reveal a secret.
give in
phrase
B2
To finally stop resisting and agree.
give it your all
phrase
B2
To hold nothing back in your effort.
give or take
phrase
B2
Approximately, allowing a little either way.
give out
phrase
B2
To hand copies to everyone; also, to finally stop working.
give priority
phrase
B2
To deal with one thing before all the others.
give somebody your word
phrase
B2
To promise faithfully.
give something a miss
phrase
B2
To decide not to go or not to take part.
give the benefit of the doubt
phrase
B2
To believe somebody when you cannot be sure.
glance away
phrase
B2
To look aside quickly.
global warming
phrase
B2
The heating of the planet by trapped gases.
go back
phrase
A2
2 meanings
To return to a place you were before.
go halves
phrase
B2
To split the cost equally between two.
go off
phrase
B2
2 meanings
To explode, or to sound suddenly.
go over
phrase
B2
2 meanings
To examine or review something carefully.
go the extra mile
/ˈɡəʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl/
phrase
B2
To do more than duty requires.
go through
phrase
B2
2 meanings
To experience something difficult.
go to your head
phrase
B2
To make you conceited, or to make you tipsy.
go with the flow
phrase
B2
To accept what happens rather than fight it.
grit your teeth
phrase
B2
To clench the jaw against pain or anger.
grow on
phrase
B2
To become liked more the longer you know it.
grow out of
phrase
B2
To become too old or too big for something.