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50 most important phrasal verbs

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Getting Away With Something

If something or someone turns up, it means it arrives or appears unexpectedly. Another common way this phrasal verb is used is when you want to say that you are going to try to do something that's not exactly the norm but don't want people to notice. If you get away with something, it means you escaped a punishment even though you are guilty of a crime or guilty of a wrongdoing. So you can talk about getting away with a crime or just getting away with something that's a little bit abnormal. To take in, if you take in something, it mean that you're understanding it and processing it in your mind.

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