Five English GET Expressions
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm and today i want to share
with you five expressions using the word
yet to help you sound more like a fluent
English speaker so let’s get going
actually number one is get going let’s
get going
you can use this expression if you are
going to a friend’s house and your wife
is taking a long time she’s drinking her
coffee she hasn’t even gotten dressed
yet
so you can say come on let’s get going
we’re going to be late hurry let’s get
going number two number two is get up
get up has two uses they’re similar
meanings the first one for example could
be at a concert and the band is onstage
and the singer says alright everybody
get up let’s sing and all of the
audience stands up get up they get up
they stand up or you can use this in
your daily life and I’m sure that you’ve
used this in your native language a lot
if your children or your husband or your
wife or even your friend they’re
sleeping so long and you want to get
going you can tell them come on hurry
get up get up
it just means wake up wake up get up get
up get out of bed alright let’s go to
number three number three is get ready
get ready now for example tonight some
of my friends are coming over for dinner
so I could say I need to get ready I
need to go to the grocery store I need
to make dinner I need to clean my house
I need to get ready for my friends to
come over and I can also say I need to
get my house ready for my friends and
get my house ready means just clean up I
need to prepare for my friends I need to
get ready number four number four is
potentially a little
dude if you say it in the wrong way so
I’ll teach you to say it in the best way
possible it is get over it now let’s
think of an example I was talking with
one of my students last week and she
told me she just moved not just moved
but she moved to America a little bit
ago and she was invited to an American
family’s house she was so excited to
finally meet some Americans have some
American friends so she went over to
their house her kids went over to their
house and she brought a cake to share
with them and no one ate the cake it was
they said it was too close to dinner
time and no one ate it she felt really
disappointed like there was a
misunderstanding or miscommunication and
in this scenario if I said to her ah I
see that you’re disappointed but you
should get over it you should forget
about the problem that’s not very nice I
need to sympathize with her oh I’m so
sorry that happened to you let’s think
about how we can do it differently in
the future
ah that’s that was disappointing but if
I said to her I forget about the problem
it’s not a big deal just get over it oh
she might feel pretty upset but that’s
pretty rude but how can we say get over
it to be polite in this situation I can
to say get over it and be polite but she
can say it about herself so when she’s
telling me the story I went to a
friend’s house and they didn’t eat my
cake and I felt disappointed but you
know I should just get over it it was
just one time it’s not a big deal I need
to get over it and forget about it oh
that’s okay because she’s telling
herself get over it
all right number five number five is
also a little bit strong it is
get out actually that’s the closet but
get out get out tell is leave leave my
house get out I’m so angry just get out
so please only use this if you’re very
angry if you use this you could joke and
say I’m so angry get out it’s a joke
that’s okay but it is very strong so if
you use get out make sure that you’re
using it in the right context leave get
out I also want to share with you a
bonus get expression that is similar to
get out but it has a very different
meeting meaning it is get out of here
get out of here get out of here is not
negative it’s not angry it’s actually
positive so for example if my friend
told me that she was moving to France
and she’s so excited she got a great job
she’s going to be living in Paris I
would be so happy for her so I would say
Oh get out of here that’s amazing I’m so
happy for you it’s an expression of
surprise of happiness get out of here
it doesn’t mean get out it is just an
expression to show that you’re surprised
so when an American says to you or you
hear in a movie get out of here
it doesn’t literally mean okay I’ll get
out of here it means they are very
surprised and happy for you
so I’m curious are any of these
expressions new to you and when you hear
them in the movies or when you hear
native speakers use them in your daily
life or when you use them you can feel
confident that this is how native
English speakers use the word get and
you can use it correctly so leave me a
comment below and tell me are these new
for you and I hope that you can use them
soon talk to you later good bye