Get the picture
verb phrase
see under get the message
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- Get there from here
Related Terms you can’t get there from here
- Get the pink slip
verb phrase To be dismissed or discharged: When they discovered the shortage of funds he got the pink slip (1915+)
- Get the runaround
Be treated evasively or misleadingly, especially in response to a request. For example, Every time I ask about next year’s plans I get the runaround. The related expression give the runaround means “to treat evasively or misleadingly,” as in He gives her the runaround whenever she asks for time off. [ Early 1900s ]
- Get the sack
verb phrase To be dismissed, with prejudice: If they protested, they got the sack (1825+ British) see under get the ax
- Get the shaft
verb phrase To be ill treated; be abused, esp by cruel deception: He thought he’d get promoted, but he got the shaft instead [1950s+; a euphemism for sodomization]