To get back at, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To satirise; to call to account.
1888. Daily Inter-Ocean. The newspapers are getting back at Sam.
Get back into your box! phr. (American).—An injunction to silence; stow it! (q.v. for synonyms).
To get encored, verb. phr. (tailors’).—To have a job returned for alterations.
To get even with, verb. phr. (common).—To take one’s revenge; to give tit for tat.
To get it, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be punished (morally or physically); to be called over the coals. Also (venery) to catch a clap.
To get off, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To (1) escape punishment, to be let off; (2) to utter, to deliver oneself of, to perpetrate—as to get off a joke; and (3) to get married.
To get on, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To back a horse; to put a bit on (q.v.).
2. (colloquial).—To succeed; or, simply, to fare. Thus, How are you getting on? may signify (1) To what extent are you prospering? or (2) How are you doing?
1871. Pall Mall Gaz., 29 Dec. That great Anglo-Saxon passion of rising in the world, or getting on—that is, rising into the class above him.