get back
phrasal verbget back
- to return, especially to your home
- What time did you get back last night?
- We only got back from our trip yesterday.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGet back is used with these nouns as the object:- appetite
- breath
- confidence
- …
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get something back
- to obtain something again after having lost it
- She's got her old job back.
- I never lend books—you never get them back.
get back (in)
- (of a political party) to win an election after having lost the previous one