get on to/onto sth
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
(SUBJECT)
to start talking about a different subject:
How did we get on to (the subject of) your grandmother's cat?
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- meander
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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(PERSON)
UK to speak or write to a person or organization because you want him, her, or it to help you in some way:
Did you remember to get on to the plumber about the shower?
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Communicating & keeping in touch
- bell
- catch up
- communication
- communicative
- give sb a bell idiom
- hear
- hear from sb
- interact
- interaction
- pick
- pick up the phone idiom
- radio silence
- raise
- rapporteur
- reach out to sb
- ring (sb) back
- send
- send word idiom
- signal
- touch
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