get across

Meaning

1. Editorial92% of films

   to go from one side of a space, obstacle, or route to the other; to cross it

   Then they invented jet planes that can get across the ocean on one tank.

   - How do we get across? - Jump.

2. Oxford8% of films

   to be communicated or understood; to succeed in communicating sth

   You get so caught up in winning, - you start to lose yourself. - It's gonna be easy because there's only one message you need to get across.

In the movies · 16

• You get so caught up in winning, - you start to lose yourself. - It's gonna be easy because there's only one message you need to get across.Game Change2012
• Then they invented jet planes that can get across the ocean on one tank.Come from Away2021
• - How do we get across? - Jump.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022
• We got to get across the river.Transformers: Dark of the Moon2011
• So we have to get across... this.Jumanji: The Next Level2019
• We can't let them get across that bridge.Free Guy2021
• I had to get across the border, man.Trade2007
• It's $3.25 to get across one way.Sicko2007

Learn it in full scenes

• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency
• Free Guy2021
  • Guy's Morning in Free City
  • Guy Orders a Cappuccino
  • Blue Shirt Guy Breaks the Rules

From the same entry

• be getting on
• be getting on for
• can't get over
• get away from it all
• get it
• get it on
• get it up
• get going
• get nowhere get anywhere
• get somewhere
• get there
• get this

More phrasal verbs

• keep away
• run out on
• pick on
• cut in
• fall through
• get through to
• pass by
• drink to
• sign in
• go beyond
• get on with
• get out of