get better
verb1
Literally To improve.
2
Idiomatic To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
- [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch? [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt! [Sir Bedevere]: A newt? [Peasant]: ... I got better.1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)
- I wrote a song about getting better / It's a feeling I can't remember / Arf, arf / Counting worms2016 September 16, “Counting Worms”, in Laugh Tracks (Hardcore Punk, Metalcore), performed by Knocked Loose:
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