get at sb
UK informal— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
(CRITICIZE)
to criticize a person repeatedly:
He keeps getting at me and I really don't know what I've done wrong.
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- carpet
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- crucify
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- upbraid
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(INFLUENCE)
to influence a person illegally, usually by offering them money or threatening them:
The accused claimed that the witness had been got at.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- perjury
- phishing
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
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