A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'

20/03/2024 28 min
A Word in Your Ear: Phrase Verbs and the Strange Origins of 'Get'

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Hang in there. Get over it. Put up with it. How did these peculiar and 'improper' phrases come to pervade the English language?