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get around to sth

Phrasal Verb with get
 
 
/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

(also UK get round to sth)
to do something that you have intended to do for a long time: I finally got around to calling her yesterday.
(Definition of get around to sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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