same as get around
But his promise to try to get round human rights laws was undermined by his own Immigration Minister.
By selling it as a bath product it can get round flimsy drug laws.
It got round the law and alerted us to what is going on in our neighbourhood.
It took hours and hours just to get round it,' he says.
Luckily he hadn't got round to robbing anyone.
She gets round her dad easily, but her mother is more strict.
THOUSANDS of sham marriages were staged each year to get round strict immigration laws.
The news soon got round that people were going to lose their jobs.
We had to get round the problem that none of us spoke the same language.
gets round
getting round
got round
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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