get sth across
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
B2 to manage to make someone understand or believe something:
We tried to get our point across, but he just wouldn't listen.
This is the message that we want to get across to the public.
More examples
- The novel is good at getting the experience of war across to the reader.
- The campaign had clearly failed to get its message across to the public.
- The speaker reiterated the main points he was trying to get across to the audience.
- Do you think he managed to get his ideas across?
- She usually wastes no time in getting her points across.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- demystify
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- fill
- justify
- mean
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
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