get something over with
verbEtymology get + over with
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Idiomatic To proceed to do something as soon as possible, especially so as to have something unpleasant behind oneself.
- I hate getting shots, but it's best just to get it over with.
- Let's just get this over with. I'm sure we've all got things we'd rather be doing2019, “One Bad Day” (50 seconds from the start), in Marvel's The Punisher, season 2, episode 7:
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