单词 | get by |
释义 | > as lemmasto get by to get by colloquial (originally U.S.). extracted from getv. 1. intransitive. To pass muster, be acceptable. Also: to get away with. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [verb (intransitive)] sufficec1340 doa1450 servec1475 to go down1608 to pass (muster) in a crowd1711 to get by1897 1897 Reliable Poultry Jrnl. Jan. 823/1 These stay-white birds often show..a color that will get by with a cut of one-half point when the judge comes round. 1922 H. Crane Let. 2 Apr. (1965) 83 It has enough in it to ‘get by’ on the first reading with a rather pleasing effect. 1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 122 That chap could get by with murder. 1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 38 We had to stand general inspection... Our frozen overcoats stood rigidly out like garments stolen from statues... But we got by somehow. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime i. 12 Polly thinks I can get by all right. 1968 Listener 14 Nov. 663/3 The pseudo-metaphysical jargon that gets by as art criticism today. 2004 Congress. Rec. 30 Mar. 5573/3 One cannot get by with it at city government, county government, State government. Why do they think we can do it here in Washington? 2. intransitive. To manage with difficulty to survive or function; to cope. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > act or live through difficulties scamblec1571 scramble1670 shift1723 manage1762 scrub1831 to struggle on1837 scratch1838 widdle1844 to worry along1871 to scrape along1884 to get by1908 scuffle1939 1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 12 Getting by, living without doing any hard work. 1918 in Wine, Women & War (1926) 24 Absorbing what's useful in foreign methods..just getting by, myself... Too damned technical. 1926 Amer. Oxonian July 101 The stipend is barely enough to get by on. 1928 Incomes & Living Costs of Univ. Faculty (Yale Univ.) 109 Barely getting by with no funds to meet an emergency. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. i. 20 Our old bus will get by with a new engine. 2011 A. Gibbons Act of Love (2012) i. 5 I glance at the wheelchair. I can probably get by without it, but it is there as a back-up. to get by —— to get by —— intransitive. colloquial. To succeed in getting past (someone); to evade; to escape the notice of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a person or slip away from aglya1250 outsteala1325 glide?1510 slip1513 betrumpa1522 to give (one) the slip1567 to get by ——1601 outslip1616 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1653 elude1667 to tip (a person) the picks1673 bilk1679 to tip (a person) the pikes1688 to give one the drop1709 jouk1812 double1819 sneak1819 shirk1837 duck1896 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. i. sig. D4 S'lid I am afeard they will know me, would I could get by them. View more context for this quotation 1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 35 I have sometimes met with some Young Men, may chance with a whole Gown, Holding 'um out as if they'd dry 'um, So that one hardly can get by 'um. 1733 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible I. iv. iii. 473/2 The Angel..stood in a Place so very narrow, that there was no Possibility of getting by him. 1770 Yorick's Jests 39 Not being able to get by him unobserved. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 55 How the deuce did you get by the lodge, Joe? 1874 C. White Hop of Fashion 12 Ah, there's the door keeper. How to get by him? 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories ii. v. 199 How he had gotten by the office boy Brown could not conceive. 1919 H. Crane Let. 13 Dec. (1965) 27 I am thoroughly confident about the thing itself since it has got by the particular, hierarchic Josephson. 1951 A. Zaleznik Foreman Training in Growing Enterprise vii. 112 That Rita has an eagle eye. Nothing gets by her. 2008 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. b7 How'd that guy get by security? < as lemmas |
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