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get-well
[ get-wel ]
adjective
- conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness:
a get-well card.
Idioms and Phrases
Recover from illness, as in I hope you get well soon . This idiom uses well in the sense of “in good health,” a usage dating from the mid-1500s.Example Sentences
While she was recovering from treatment, Ruble made her a tutu with miniature get-well notes attached to it.
Brigit's bright room spilled over with Get-Well blimps and Well-Wishing sparklers darting about.
The Bruins had persevered for a 66-65 victory, giving their coach a get-well card while extending their home winning streak to 29 games.
It’s also worth pointing out that Stanford’s defense could be essentially a get-well card to whoever plays quarterback for the Bruins.
New Zealand’s players sent him an All Blacks jersey signed by all the players as a get-well and New Zealand center Anton Lienert-Brown visited Malan in the hospital.
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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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