Get around
Get around verb - To avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness.
Usage example: somehow she managed to get around the rules for paying the sales tax on a car bought out of state
Keep is an antonym for get around in stray from normal path topic.
Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Get around is an antonym for keep.
Both terms in one sentence
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They never get around to it in that episode, and keep joking about it whenever Dave enters the room later on.
- To get around this, Harry suggests that it either nod or keep still depending on if its answer is "yes" or "no".
Source: Once for Yes, Twice for No -
The Fuller Memorandum suggests that despite being a raving psychopath, he's the one who built the Wall of Pain on the dead plateau to keep the Sleeper in the Pyramid contained and postpone CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN, something that the Laundry didn't get around to until the 1970s with the white elephants.
Source: Useful Notes / Ungern-Sternberg
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