to criticize someone again and again in a way that is unfair
to discover the true facts about something
to manage to reach or touch something
to try to suggest something without saying it directly
Frido tried to organize a movement against two of the nearest of the bunkers, but they were difficult to get at.
He couldn't begin to get at Ruhr, who had disappeared without the courtesy of a clue.
I keep the sweets up here where the children can’t get at them.
Nurses, doctors, patients - he'd carve his way through all of them to get at me.
Of course, there were any number of ways to get at Cratyn, the easiest target being the hapless Lady Chastity.
This was an attempt to stop journalists getting at the truth.
What are you getting at?
Why are you always getting at me?
gets at
getting at
got at
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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