GET AWAYとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

get away (third-person singular simple present gets away, present participle getting away, simple past got away, past participle (UK) got away or (US) gotten away)

1. (literally) To move away (from).

   Get away from the edge of the cliff!

   Get away from me!

2. (with 'from' when used with an object) To avoid capture; to escape; to flee (from).

   Surround the bank! Don't let the robber get away!

   I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.

3. (with 'to' when used with an object) To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday.

   This place is really getting me down. I need to get away for a while.

   Next weekend we're hoping to get away to the seaside.

4. To start moving; to depart.

   The train got away exactly on time.

   • 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:

     I couldn't get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it.

   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:

     In 1965, all Coventry's banks closed at noon on Christmas Eve for the first time, to "enable bank staff to get away at a reasonable time".

5. To slip from one's control.

   I can't cope any more. Things are getting away from me.

派生語

間投詞

get away

1. Expressing disbelief.

   You bought that for twenty pounds? Get away!

関連する語

• get away with you

アナグラム

• gateway, waygate

語源

Deverbal from get away.

名詞

getaway (plural getaways)

1. A means of escape.
2. The effecting of an escape.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:

     This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!

3. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

同意語

• (vacation, holiday): leave, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation

派生語

形容詞

getaway (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

   They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

アナグラム

• gateway, waygate