get back

1) PHRASAL VERB If someone or something gets back to a state they were in before, they are then in that state again.

[V P to n] Then life started to get back to normal...

[V P to n] I couldn't get back to sleep. [Also V P into n]

Syn:

return

2) PHRASAL VERB If you get back to a subject that you were talking about before, you start talking about it again.

[V P to/onto n] It wasn't until we had sat down to eat that we got back to the subject of Tom Halliday.

Syn:

return

3) PHRASAL VERB If you get something back after you have lost it or after it has been taken from you, you then have it again.

[V n P] You have 14 days in which you can cancel the contract and get your money back. [Also V P n (not pron)]

4) PHRASAL VERB If you get back at someone or get them back, you do something unpleasant to them in order to have revenge for something unpleasant that they did to you. [INFORMAL]

[V P at n] My wife has left me and I wanted to get back at the first woman I saw...

[V n P] I'm going to get you back so badly you're never going to be able to show your face again.