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get someone

get someone

Date: Apr 20 2017

Themes: Celebrity, Fashion, Music, Pop Culture

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“I’m thrilled and honored to have signed with Wilhelmina. They get me.”

—Rapper Nicki Minaj, speaking about her new modeling contract (Vogue)

Definition

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understand someone; know someone

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

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Think of your best friend in the world. Why do you like this person? Maybe, you admire them or look up to them. Perhaps, they are a lot of fun to be around. You might share a lot of the same interests. You might have been friends since you were children. You probably talk to each other all the time. When you have a best friend, you feel like this person understands you completely. They know your likes and dislikes, your hopes and fears… everything about your personality. They get you like no one else does.

If someone gets you, they understand you. They know who you are as a person. If you get someone else, you understand them, too. You might have some people in your life who you get, and who get you back. You might also have people in your life that you just don’t get! If you don’t get someone, you don’t understand them at all. Maybe, the way that they act confuses or puzzles you, or maybe, you just have very different personalities.

Rapper Nicki Minaj was happy to start modeling for the fashion line, Wilhelmina. She says that this company gets her. They understand her personal style and what kind of clothes she likes to wear.

Who is a person in your life who gets you?

Examples

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“My sister really gets me. I can talk to her about anything.”

“I just don’t get him. I think our personalities are too different.”

“You wanted a new job, but now that you have one, you’re unhappy? I don’t get you!”

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hermitlady

China

Get someone


  An interesting topic. It is so important that one is got by another one in one’s life in the world. I would thought that was a big part of the meaning of life. Another way of saying, getting someone or got by someone makes the life more meaningful.


  But it is hard for one to understand another one completely. Form my experience, I found I could performance and express the difference things when I faced difference friends. Some friends I only said about emotional matters, and they only knew what was I in the emotion world. some friends I only said living matters, and some I only said about family things. The same time, I got the same response.


   When I have some problems I can find a friend who understand the same problems to talk about.


  So I thought it was a mutual process that understanding a person ,and being understood by a person.



  Anyway, when I meet a person who I can talk about something deeply no matter which side, I usually am excited very much. Because I can feel a little more meaning of my life. 

06:26 AM Apr 20 2017 |

suldaan001

Somalia

my life is gets a person very beautiful and smart behavior

03:12 AM Apr 20 2017 |

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