get round
(slang, dated, transitive) To convince or trick (someone).
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GOP: yeah but it doesn't shine at night does it, how are you going to get round that eh?
Going to get round to reading that later 👍
Got sidetracked and didn’t get round to the last 40 odd pages of this for ages. I’m so glad I finished it
How to get round up banned: use it for birth control, abortion specifically.
They don't have much of a case if it's taken them fourteen years to get round to complaining!
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(slang, dated, transitive) To convince or trick (someone).
“GOP: yeah but it doesn't shine at night does it, how are you going to get round that eh?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Going to get round to reading that later 👍”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Got sidetracked and didn’t get round to the last 40 odd pages of this for ages. I’m so glad I finished it”
— Bluesky· May 2026“How to get round up banned: use it for birth control, abortion specifically.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“They don't have much of a case if it's taken them fourteen years to get round to complaining!”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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