Idiom
get something over with
Meaning
To proceed to do something as soon as possible, especially so as to have something unpleasant behind oneself.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I want to get this homework over with today.”
“I hate going to the dentist, so I always book the earliest appointment to get it over with.”
“Rather than prolonging his anxiety by delaying the inevitable, he decided to face the difficult conversation and get it over with once and for all.”
Examples
simple
“I want to get this homework over with today.”
contextual
“I hate going to the dentist, so I always book the earliest appointment to get it over with.”
complex
“Rather than prolonging his anxiety by delaying the inevitable, he decided to face the difficult conversation and get it over with once and for all.”
Origin
A combination of the verb *get* and the prepositional phrase *over with*.
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