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"ref": "2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29",
"text": "The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: \"It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars.\"",
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"ref": "1964, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, I Get Around (Beach Boys song). I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip My buddies and me are getting real well known Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone I get around (get around round round I get around)",
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"(slang) To be sexually promiscuous."
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},
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"text": "There's no trail going through. We can't get around to the lake."
},
{
"text": "We'll get a good view of the mountains when we get around the bend."
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"text": "How did you get around having to write the executive report?"
},
{
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"text": "How's he gonna get around without a car?",
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},
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"text": "Granny uses a wheelchair to get around.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29",
"text": "The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: \"It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars.\"",
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"ref": "1964, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, I Get Around (Beach Boys song). I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip My buddies and me are getting real well known Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone I get around (get around round round I get around)",
"text": "From town to town (get around round round I get around)"
}
],
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"To visit numerous different places."
]
},
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"categories": [
"English slang"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Wow, she really gets around."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be sexually promiscuous."
],
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"(slang) To be sexually promiscuous."
],
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"slang"
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around."
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"sense": "Translations",
"word": "codi allan"
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