get out from under

1. see out from under.

Example Sentences

He did it anyway, he said, “to get out from under large gambling debts accumulated over time.”

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He told a judge that he participated in the scheme “to get out from under large gambling debts.”

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The U.S. will likely eventually be able to get out from under China’s chokehold on rare earths, says Geoffrey Gertz, senior fellow with the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and a former director for international economics at the White House under President Biden.

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This just has to do with optimizing shareholder benefits and trying to get out from under threats from the administration.

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Just as the Chargers wanted to put their disappointing playoff performance behind them, the Chiefs wanted to get out from under the dark cloud of a blowout Super Bowl loss to Philadelphia.

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