Explain and Get it

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Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Get it and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Get it" instead a verb "Explain".

Get it verb - Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

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Explain and get it are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Get it".

Huck keeps repeating that Jim doesn't get it (though the fact that he doesn't explain the point himself may indicate that he didn't get it himself).

Source: Judgment of Solomon
This happens pretty often in South Park, where one of the kids tries in vain to explain the facts of the situation to the adults, and the adults either just don't get it or else get it horribly, horribly wrong.

Source: They Just Don't Get It
It takes Haymitch restraining her, then sitting her down to explain for her to get it.

Source: Idiot Ball / Literature

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