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get there
Idioms and Phrases
Achieve success, as in He always wanted to be a millionaire, and he finally got there . In this expression, there indicates one's goal. The participial form of this phrase, getting there , means “making progress toward a goal,” as in I haven't finished the book, but I'm getting there . [Late 1800s] Also see get somewhere .Example Sentences
Almost everyone with a stock or bond portfolio has a different mental picture of what they want to accomplish with their investments, if not how to get there.
“When they first get there, they sort of reenact the fire, like you can see them gesturing, ‘The wind came in this way, this is where we were …’ and that goes on for a while, and then you see them starting to point to different places, like where they live, where they go to school, where they walk.
“I’m the only one who’s a little off, but I’m going to get there.”
It’s best if you take someone without telling them what it is, and then it just sort of blows their mind when they get there.
He gives legitimate reasons to get there.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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