Read full poem →beach boys when the beach boys had paying guests that
they wanted to get at, but when the beach boys, having
no money nor any potential catch, attempted, with mas-
Dictionary Entry
To manage to gain access to.
In a Sentence
“I have a lot of money in my trust fund. I just can't get at it.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “get at”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure
their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and
deceive them; and they were all going to posh secretarial schools
Read full poem →Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?