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get sb into trouble

old-fashioned

Definition

If a man gets a woman or girl who is not married into trouble, he makes her pregnant
When he got his girlfriend into trouble, they had to choose between marriage and an abortion.

(Definition of get sb into trouble from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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