get across
verb
Forms gets across getting across got across gotten across
- verb (transitive, intransitive) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively. “In heavy rain, the cavalry couldn't get across the river.”
- verb (transitive) To make an idea evident; to successfully explain a thought or feeling; put over. “I couldn't get across to the board this simple economic fact.”
- verb (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, dated) To succeed; to do well.
- verb (transitive, slang) To annoy (someone); to get on someone's bad side.
Synonyms
put over click get through dawn come home sink in penetrate fall into place traverse track cover cross pass over get over cut through cut across
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “get across”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details