Hey, what's up? What's going on? Welcome to English with Dane, a podcast designed to improve your English. As always, I'm your host, Dane, and you can find me on Instagram at English with Dane. Today I'm going to talk to you about three phrasal verbs with the verb to get. Three phrasal verbs that come up quite often in my day-to-day and that my students sometimes have difficulties with. So let's start the show. You are listening to the nineteenth episode of season two of English with Dane.
Hit it. To get over something or someone. This one means to overcome something, okay? Superar algo. For example, it can take a long time to get over an illness like that. But it also means to feel happy again after something negative has happened to you. For example, they broke up six months ago, but he still isn't over it. There's another use, however, and I think it's the one I use the most.
When I want to express a loss of interest in something, whether it's mine or someone else's, I use this phrasal verb. I'll say, I'm over it. Alright, the next phrasal verb with get is to get rid of something. To get rid of something means to remove or discard something you don't want anymore. You can say something like, hey, you have too many clothes. You need to get rid of some.
In an editing context, for example, when you are helping someone edit a video, music, writing, whatever the case may be, you can say things like, okay, keep this, but get rid of the rest. Get rid of everything after this. Or don't get rid of that paragraph. We can put it at the end, etc. Deshacerse de algo in Spanish, okay? They also use this phrasal verb in movies or TV shows like gangster movies.
When they want to kill someone, but they don't want to say kill him, they'll say something like, we need to get rid of him. Then we have to get away with something. To get away with something means to manage to do something, lograr hacer algo, usually something bad, without being punished or criticized for it. For example, they robbed a bank and got away with it because nobody called the police, or I can't believe he got away with it, que se salió con la suya.
We also use it for things that are not necessarily bad, and we use it less dramatically too. Imagine you go shopping with a friend, and he or she wants to buy something that is a bit risky. Maybe it's a very adventurous piece of clothing. They might ask you, do you think I could get away with wearing this? Now, wearing that piece of clothing isn't bad for the world, but what they're asking you is if you think they could wear that without people saying negative things about him or her.
It almost translates to, do you think someone would say something if I wore this? Do you think I could get away with wearing this? It's important to note that to get away is a different phrasal verb, okay? I'm talking about to get away with something, not just get away, which means to escape, to create space, alejarse, right? This is one of the tricky aspects about phrasal verbs. Combining a verb with an adverb or a preposition or both changes the meaning completely.
I've talked about this on a past episode, so I'll leave the link in the description in case you missed it, or if you want to go back and refresh your memory. All right, that's it for today. I hope you learned something from this episode. And if you were already familiar with these phrasal verbs, I hope I shed some light on new ways to use them. I'll be back on Wednesday with more English with Dane.
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