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get round to (third-person singular simple present gets round to, present participle getting round to, simple past got round to, past participle (UK) got round to or (US) gotten round to)

  1. Alternative form of get around to.
    • 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.
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