Phrasal Verb Fun

get out of
Get
has three main meanings, depending on what follows it. The literal
meaning of get out of is to leave something with a little difficulty, perhaps.
Miriam didn't like her boyfriend's car. It was hard to get out of.
But the question What do you get out of it? is asking what thing do you
get? This get means achieve or obtain. So, What do you get out of being
rude to the tax inspector? means what benefit do you get?
Three-word verb
No problem.
get over
To get something over means to
get
some information, some teaching,
some new ideas perhaps,
over
an imaginary table. 'To get something over'
means 'to successfully communicate it'.
A great mathematician is teaching the quantum mechanics class. This is
hard. The ideas are not getting over today.
It takes patience for the message to
get across
. Same meaning
Get it over is very similar to
put over
and
put across
, but there is the slight
sense - that you always have with get - of a little difficulty.
GET IT OVER is a
separable two-word verb
Be careful.
The message, the information, or the impression gets over.
Careful. This has a completely different meaning from GET OVER IT.
This GET OVER is a
two-word verb without an object
No problem.

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get over it
Poor George never did get over the death of his wife. He thought about
her every hour of every day for the rest of his life.
Imagine, dear reader, that you are standing next to a wall that is two
metres high. Normally you would not even think of getting over it, but
suddenly there is a large, horrible, angry bull and.he doesn't like you. No
problem. You would get over that wall.
For English speakers, a bad illness, an emotional loss, an acute
disappointment are all walls that you have to get over. This
over
means
'finished'.
Mary took months to get over her flu.
Notice the difference between GET OVER IT and GET IT OVER.
GET OVER something is an
Inseparable two-word verb
No problem.