get around
To travel to different places, or to find a way past a problem.
Meanings
To travel to different places or to move freely from place to place.
"She uses a bicycle to get around the city."
To find a way to avoid or deal with a rule, problem, or obstacle.
"The lawyers found a way to get around the regulation."
"There's no getting around it."
— Common idiomatic phrase; used, for example, in Winston Churchill's wartime speeches and widely throughout English literature
(Of news or information) to spread among many people.
"Word got around quickly that the director was leaving."
"It gets around."
— Common colloquial expression, widely used in American English journalism and fiction
To persuade someone, usually by charm or flattery, to do what you want.
"She always knew how to get around her father when she wanted something."
The sense 'to spread (of news or gossip)' is impersonal: 'Word gets around.' The sense of circumventing something is often used in legal or bureaucratic contexts.
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