Get something over with means to finish an unpleasant task as quickly as possible, so you don't have to keep dreading it. The most common form is get it over with — 'let's just get it over with'.
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get + something + over with; get it over with
- I hate going to the dentist, but I'd rather get it over with today.
- Let's just get the presentation over with so we can relax.
- She wanted to get the difficult conversation over with as soon as possible.
What changed
First versionI want to get over with it as soon as possible.
RevisionI want to get it over with as soon as possible.
The object always goes between get and over with: get it over with, get the exam over with. You can't say get over with it. It's tempting to put it right after with, the way you'd put an object right after a preposition, but that's not how this phrase works.
Get it over with is about finishing something unpleasant that still lies ahead; get over it is about accepting or no longer being upset about something that's already happened. One situation comes before the event, the other after.
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The interview had been making her nervous all week, so instead of postponing it again, she decided to go in and ___.
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get it over with — The interview is still ahead of her, and she decides to go in and finish it quickly — that's get it over with. Get over it would fit if the interview had already happened and she just needed to stop worrying about it.
Describe an unpleasant task you'd been putting off and then decided to do quickly. Name the task and say why you wanted to get it done fast.
I'd been putting off my tax return for weeks, but worrying about the deadline was worse than the paperwork, so I finally sat down on Sunday to get it over with.
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