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View definitions for get back at

get back at

verb as in settle a score

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There was a stoppage in the second half, when Ireland were ahead, but the game was still in the balance, during which England's players were standing around in ones and twos having conversations, rather than getting huddled up and working out where they can get back at Ireland.

From BBC

He wants to get back at the Eagles for one that got away.

You’ve read all the analysis about why people voted for Donald Trump — they felt forgotten, they were angry, they wanted to get back at the libs … on and on the reasons go, and we know to whom those reasons apply.

From Salon

That made the scientists wonder if Anchali was trying to get back at Mary by ruining her shower.

Offset and Cardi B might have gone their separate ways, after seven years of marriage, but the “Bodak Yellow” rapper said she would enlist her ex’s help to get back at the prank caller — with some stipulations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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