get together

get together idiom
  1. Accumulate, gather, as in Go get all the firewood together: [c. 1400]
  2. Come together, assemble, as in Let's get together next week. The variant get together with means “meet with someone,” as in I can't get together with them today but I'll have time next week. [Late 1600s]
  3. Arrive at an agreement, as in The jury was unable to get together on a verdict.
  4. get something or oneself together. See under get one's act together.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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