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get into sb

phrasal verb with get
 
 
/ɡet/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US gotten)

Definition

If you do not know what has got into someone, you do not understand why they are behaving strangely: I can't think what's got into him. He doesn't usually make such a fuss.Continually thinking about
(Definition of get into sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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