73. Get ahead | (go forward) You can get ahead of your rivals only by hard work. |
74. Get along | (be friendly) They just can’t get along together because of temperamental differences. |
75. Get at | (reach, understand) It is very difficult to get at the truth etc. |
76. Get away | (escape) They got away on scooter. |
77. Get away with | (without being punished or with little punishment) Although his fault was serious, he got away with light punishment. |
78. Get on | (progress) How is your son getting on with your study? |
79. Get on with | (live together, pull with) Both husband and wife are getting on well with each other. |
80. Get over | (recover from illness or shock, come over) He is still trying to get over the financial crises. |
81. Get through | (pass through, succeed) It is not possible to get through examination without labour. |
82. Get up | (rise from bed, dressed) The woman got up from her chair with the baby in her arms. |
83. Give away | (distribute) She has given away Jewellery worth thousands of Rupees. |
84. Give in | (surrender, agree) At first she was adamant but at last she gave in to the request of her friend. |
85. Give out | (announce verbally, emit) It was given out that she had failed. |
86. Give up | (stop, abstain from) He gave up smoking to save money. |
87. Give way | (collapse under pressure, break) The contractor was charged with negligence when the roof of a new building gave way. |
88. Given to | (accustomed to) He is given to smoking. |
89. Go back on | (withdraw, back out) One should not go back on one’s promise. |
90. Go down | (be believed) Your excuse will not go down |
91. Go in for | (buy, practise, to enter a contest) I thought of going in for teaching. |
92. Go off | (explode and be discharged) When he was cleaning his gun it went off and killed him. |
93. Go on | (continue) There is no need to go on arguing about it. |
94. Go over | (examine carefully, look over) On going over the balance sheet of the company the auditors have found serious mistakes. |
95. Go through | (read hurriedly, endure) He didn’t lend me the newspaper because he was going through it. |
96. Go up | (rise, increase) As a result of a sharp rise in prices the price of washing soap has gone up. |