单词 | get across |
释义 | > as lemmasto get across to get across 1. a. intransitive. To reach the other side of an intervening space or obstacle. ΚΠ 1851 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era 24 July 118/1 I jumped right on to the ice, and how I got across I don't know. 1880 Colburn's United Service Mag. May 52 The news got across to the Zulus in less than an hour. 1902 F. Lynde Master of Appleby xlviii. 523 And so swimming and wading by turns we got across in time to give the alarum. 1995 Leisureways Nov. 24/2 To get across to the Port you board a free ferry. b. transitive. To convey to the other side of an intervening space or obstacle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > across overcarrya1382 to set overc1540 to put over1569 to take over1573 traject1635 put1636 cross1804 to pass over1832 to get across1909 1909 Chatterbox 62/2 They were strong, thick planks, not likely to sag in the middle, if I could only get them across. 1943 Coast to Coast 1942 29 Might be he lose his leg if we don't get him across right away to the quack. 1985 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 4th Ser. Christmas Special 273 Well then how in God's name did you expect to get us across to Holland? 2. Originally Theatre. a. transitive. To convey (words, a message, etc.) so that they are understood or appreciated. Originally and frequently with it as indefinite object. ΚΠ 1911 Field Notes (Northwestern Mutual Life Assurance Co.) June 1/2 Stage people have a phrase that clearly expresses the matter. However good a line may be, however fraught with meaning, it falls flat if the actor fails to ‘get it across’. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 190 Tell a fellow now, did I get it across? 1918 Proc. Ann. Session Wisconsin Teachers' Assoc. 1917 149 In some way they must learn to get their ideas across. 1927 Observer 16 Oct. 15/3 The lower comedy is at present in the making, but Miss B. C., Mr. E. M. and Mr. L. H. are experts at getting it across. 1975 Times 23 Aug. 4/7 Mrs Ford..makes it plain she gets her views across to Mr Ford in what she calls ‘Pillow talk’. 1999 W. Gibson All Tomorrow's Parties xix. 80 The sheer crunch required to get it across. b. intransitive. Of something performed or written: to be conveyed so as to be understood or appreciated by an audience. Also: (of the person communicating) to convey a message, emotion, impression, etc., so as to be understood or appreciated. Also with to. ΘΚΠ society > communication > [verb (intransitive)] communique?1473 communicate1598 correspond1605 talk1705 connect1750 to get across1913 liaise1928 network1980 society > communication > [verb (intransitive)] > successfully to get across1913 to get over1918 connect1942 to come over1946 communicate1959 1913 J. B. Esenwein & A. Leeds Writing Photoplay 24 It is sometimes said that an effect, a bit of business, or an emotion which an actor is endeavoring to portray, ‘will not register’, meaning that it will not ‘get across’ or be understood by the audience in the way intended by the producer. 1921 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 14/2 Some vitality that may be as far away as you like from lifelikeness..but nevertheless gets across to the reader from the writer. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter vi. 148 Sorry—my fault—one fails to get across. 1928 Observer 1 Apr. 6 His verse..in spite of all the efforts of his friends and admirers..has not really ‘got across’ eleven years after his death. 1941 N. Farson Behind God's Back iii. 42 If you can't talk to us, you can't ‘get across’ to us, can you? And so you can't impose your ideas upon us. 2010 Church Times 28 May 25/3 Only the failure of traditionalists to be sufficiently Anselmian in their arguments about this stops the message from getting across. to get across —— to get across —— intransitive. colloquial. To annoy, get on the wrong side of, come into conflict with (someone). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- 1888 Sunday at Home 35 5/2 I believe he could be a regular tyrant if once one got across him! 1893 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Sept. 590/1 I felt sure that in a fight he would kill an enemy without compunction, and I devoutly hoped that he and I might never get across each other in the course of events. 1921 V. Woolf Diary (1979) II. 140 Very soon we should have got across each other. I felt come over me the old aversion. 1960 M. Stewart My Brother Michael xiv. 183 He's got across that damned Greek. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) ii. 59 I thought that perhaps the two sculptors had got across each other—that there had been a personality clash. < as lemmas |
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