get the message
Example Sentences
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Will the Supreme Court get the message?
From Los Angeles Times
There’s no such thing as a zombie apocalypse, he told himself, but his heart didn’t get the message and started to pound.
From Literature
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He only mouths it, but I get the message loud and clear.
From Literature
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“Many complained that Francis was perpetually chastising the world. Leo is going to be a pastor who tries to get the message across in a more gentle way. But the message remains unchanged,” says Elise Ann Allen, the author of a new biography of Leo.
“I feel like we have to continue to get the message out that San Francisco is on the rise, and not everybody has heard it,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.