get to the point
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It took awhile for me to get to the point where I could even talk about this publicly, especially being in entertainment and trying to maintain a certain persona and image in entertainment where like your ego clashes against your vulnerability and you feeling like you’re weak.
From Los Angeles Times
It took huge coordinated public health efforts to get to the point where we “eliminated” measles in the U.S., which finally happened in 2000.
From Slate
“And you call yourself an agent? Please be straightforward and get to the point, Mr. Jarvis. Do you have any information that hasn’t yet been considered? Something worthy of making me late for work?”
From Literature
“But to get to the point where you could actually absorb a meaningful shock to Taiwan without severe global shortages, you’re looking at midcentury or later.”
"Unless you have private funding and the support and the ability to have a coroner even accept that they're going to look into gambling... to get to the point we did isn't going to happen for all the families it should do."
From BBC
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