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Get around   /gɛt ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Get around

verb
1.
Be released or become known; of news.  Synonyms: break, get out.
2.
Avoid something unpleasant or laborious.  Synonyms: bypass, go around, short-circuit.
3.
Be a social swinger; socialize a lot.  Synonym: swing.
4.
Move around; move from place to place.  Synonym: get about.



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"Get around" Quotes from Famous Books



... back into the woods, then behind the stone walls to get around to the side next the ridge, and crawling so flat on his breast in the clover that, although it was but a foot high, he was quite invisible to any one not placed much ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... and a mail run between Xecho and Trewsworld—frontier planets. They're far enough from Terra to get around the exile ruling. The Patrol will escort us out and see that we get down to work like good little space men. We'll have two years of a nice, quiet run on regular pay. Then, when all the powers that shine have forgotten about us, we can cut in on the ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... I can if you'll help me. You notice there's a range of hills between us and them; and they are on the north slope of one. I've been surveying a little of the country off south, and I think you can get around the range that way, and come out beyond the deer, before they see you. There's everything in our favor. The wind blows to us from them. At the first alarm they'll start for the woods; and they'll be pretty sure to keep along in the hollow. I'll watch here, and ...
— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge

... decided. "I can easily get around that, if it's put up to me. You go on back. Really, you must!" her ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... "only I thought there might be some better time to try it; but, if you say so, we'll stop right here." He sprang to the ground, and offered to assist her; but she was beside him before he could get around his horse's head. ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill


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