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Get it

verb
1.
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.  Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig.
2.
Receive punishment.



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... current which comes from the pancreas. Thus combined, the two liquids flow over the chyme, which they saturate on all sides; and here, as I have said, the work of the intestinal canal ends. What is serviceable for the blood is separated from the useless refuse, and nothing remains but to get it out of the intestines. It is true that in their character of tubes these are closed on all sides. But do not trouble yourself: a means of escape ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... you want?" finally inquired the inspector, in a tone that clearly implied that, whatever it was, she would not get it. ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... was going to cable from Southampton to the New York World, mail his account to America on the same day, paralyse London with his three columns of loosely knitted headlines, and generally efface the earth. 'You'll see how I work a big scoop when I get it,' he said. ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... follows: 'If they should be cruel enough to order you to be transported for fourteen years, Freddy, my dear, I shall try to persuade your father (though he's just like a savage North American Indian about you) to get it changed "for life" instead, for they always die of the yellow fever for the sharks to eat them, when they've been over there three or four years; and four years are better than fourteen, though bad's the best, and I'm a miserable woman. I read all about it last week in one ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... leagues from Cuzco, called Cugma and Huata. Inca Yupanqui and Inca Rocca sent to him to do homage, but he replied that he was as good as they were and free, and that if they wanted anything, they must get it with their lances. For this answer the Inca made war upon the said Sinchi. He united his forces with those of two other Sinchis, his companions, named Paucar Tupac and Puma Lloqui, and went forth to fight the Inca. ...
— History of the Incas • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa


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