Get out from under
verb phrase
To extricate oneself from troubles, esp financial troubles: They’ll never get out from under that debt (1875+)
see: out from under
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verb phrase to depart a location Examples After the graffiti, they got out of Dodge. Word Origin fr Dodge City, Kansas, part of a cliche from old Westerns about the town Usage Note slang verb phrase To depart a location: Hurricane’s coming. I’m getting out of Dodge [fr Dodge City, Kansas, part of a cliche […]
- Get out of the gate
verb phrase To start; get under way; get off the block: I think it was important to get out of the gate quickly [1980s+ fr horse racing; fr the starting gate of a horse track]
- Get outside of
verb phrase To eat or drink heartily: as he got outside of a bowl of chili (1888+)
- Get out of the way
see: out of the way
- Get out while the getting is good
Leave while one can or has the chance to, as in He just had a good offer from a rival firm and decided to get out while the getting is good . This colloquial phrase uses get out in the sense of “escape” or “depart.”