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

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

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

A Word in Your Ear · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

March 19, 202428m 47s

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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?

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