"get to grass" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets to grass",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting to grass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got to grass",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got to grass",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten to grass",
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        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> to grass"
      },
      "expansion": "get to grass (third-person singular simple present gets to grass, present participle getting to grass, simple past got to grass, past participle (UK) got to grass or (US) gotten to grass)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mining",
          "orig": "en:Mining",
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            "Business",
            "Economics",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896, George Manville Fenn, Sappers and Miners; The Flood beneath the Sea, chapter 42, “Mining Matters”",
          "text": "“Come along. No fear of the water coming in, or I'd soon say let's get to grass.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Larry Lankton, “The Underground: Change and Continuity”, in Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, chapter 2, page 33:",
          "text": "Men working at deep mines started work after a long and tiring descent, and near the end of their shift they held back on their effort, so they would have enough energy left to “get to grass.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Tom Bliss, song “The Silverlode of Sark”, from album Downhill All the Way",
          "text": "But love was no protection in the terror and the din\nWhen the island gave its answer, the day the sea broke in\nI heard the shouted warning, I tried to get to grass\nBut the ladders jammed with miners, there was no room to pass\nI never was a sailor but I met a sailor's death\nNinety feet below the ocean, I drew that dying breath"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster."
      ],
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          "mining",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mining) To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "get to grass"
}

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    {
      "form": "gets to grass",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting to grass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got to grass",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got to grass",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten to grass",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> to grass"
      },
      "expansion": "get to grass (third-person singular simple present gets to grass, present participle getting to grass, simple past got to grass, past participle (UK) got to grass or (US) gotten to grass)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1896, George Manville Fenn, Sappers and Miners; The Flood beneath the Sea, chapter 42, “Mining Matters”",
          "text": "“Come along. No fear of the water coming in, or I'd soon say let's get to grass.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Larry Lankton, “The Underground: Change and Continuity”, in Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, chapter 2, page 33:",
          "text": "Men working at deep mines started work after a long and tiring descent, and near the end of their shift they held back on their effort, so they would have enough energy left to “get to grass.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Tom Bliss, song “The Silverlode of Sark”, from album Downhill All the Way",
          "text": "But love was no protection in the terror and the din\nWhen the island gave its answer, the day the sea broke in\nI heard the shouted warning, I tried to get to grass\nBut the ladders jammed with miners, there was no room to pass\nI never was a sailor but I met a sailor's death\nNinety feet below the ocean, I drew that dying breath"
        }
      ],
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        "To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster."
      ],
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        "(mining) To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "get to grass"
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