get+across

Word:
 * get across**

Context Sentence: Different texts, from different sources trying to get across different messages will be using different kinds of language.

Source: Handout of Socioliguistics Term 1, Register 106

Definition: cause sth to be communicated or understood (Oxford Advanced Learner's English--Chinese Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 1998) e.g.: Your meaning didn't really get across. He is not good at getting his idea across.

Mnemonic Remember the eg