Word info

get between

Verb

Meaning

get between (third-person singular simple present gets between, present participle getting between, simple past got between, past participle (UK) got between or (US) gotten between)

(transitive) To become a source of conflict, especially unwittingly or accidentally.
I never wanted to get between you two.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. Woody Allen

Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money. Paul Keating

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. Tom Conti

What finally decided me was what happened in that village in Tibet; we had airdropped in during the night to get between the Indians and the Chinese. I had never seen poverty or disease like that and I wondered why guns were the only thing we could bring them. Harry Harrison (writer)

[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: "Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue:] "I would try to get between them." Lytton Strachey

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. Philip Johnson

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