get across

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Meaning

become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

travel across or pass over

communicate successfully

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My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Robert Frost

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany. Alfred Rosenberg

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. Octavia Butler

The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad. Vasily Chuikov

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. Richard Feynman

The lowest fence is the easiest to get across. Norwegian Proverb

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