get to
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
B2 UK You ask where people or things have got to when they do not arrive or are not where you expect them to be and you want to know where they are:
I wonder where my glasses have got to.
Where's Annabel got to? She should be here by now.
More examples
- Where did you get to last night? I was expecting you.
- I don't know where my brother can have got to. He was due an hour ago.
- Where can my shoes have got to? I can't find them anywhere.
- He always disappears at this time on a Friday, but I don't know where he gets to.
- She couldn't think where her keys had got to.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Losing and loss
- astray
- black hole
- disappear
- forfeit
- go walkabout idiom
- haemorrhage
- kiss
- lose
- loss
- lost
- mislay
- misplace
- miss
- say
- say goodbye to sth idiom
- slip through sb's fingers idiom
- stray
- walkabout
- wave
- wave/say goodbye to sth idiom
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