A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

get round something • get round to something
get round something —(also: get around something ) circum-
vent or evade rules, regulations, etc. (without committing a
legal offence): A clever lawyer might find ways of getting round
that clause.
get round to something —(also: get around to something ) find
time for smth.; deal with smth. (when more important matters
have been dealt with): I’m busy now but I hope to get round
to your request next week.
get sick • go sick
get sick —
1
. be taken ill: Let the woman of a house get sick,
and it just goes to pieces. 2. feel an inclination to vomit: The
bay was rough; thirty minutes out and the boys began to get
sick.
go sick —report oneself as ill to an employer, etc.: Filthy cli-
mate. But she just carries on. Hasn’t gone sick once in six
months.
get someone down • take someone down
get someone down—
1
. (also: bring someone to the ground) cause
a person to come down or fall: You get the biggest man down,
and I’ll fight the other two. 2. make a person feel depressed:
I spend most of my working time indoors, but even so this
wet weather is getting me down.
take someone down —
1
. (also: take someone down a peg ) make
smb. feel less important; humiliate a person: He seems to expe-
rience satisfaction in what he calls taking me down. 2. write
down smb.’s words: I enlisted a poet for company, and a ste-
nographer to “take him down.”
See also: bring someone down / bring someone down a peg.
get someone in wrong • get someone wrong
get someone in wrong —cause a person to fall into disfavor
with smb.: You’ll get him in wrong with his boss if you keep
calling him at the office.
Note: 
The expression does not correlate in meaning with the
phrase put someone in the wrong—show a person to be wrong:
People want to think that they’re right, and if you put them
in the wrong, they won’t like it.
get someone wrong —misinterpret the intention of smb.’s
statement or deed: Don’t get her wrong, she still loves him,
but she is understandably cautious.