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Значение идиомы get after
[get after] {v.}, {informal} 1. To try or try again to make someonedo what he is supposed to do.
Ann’s mother gets after her to hangup her clothes.
2. To scold or make an attack on.
Bob’s mother gotafter him for tracking mud into the house.
The police are gettingafter the crooks in the city.
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