get in the way

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Verb

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get in the way (third-person singular simple present gets in the way, present participle getting in the way, simple past got in the way, past participle (UK) got in the way or (US) gotten in the way)

  1. (intransitive) to obstruct, hinder, or interfere
    • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
      Ideology constantly gets in the way. For the Government, unions are militant "Trots" out to cause political trouble. For the unions, the private sector is a grasping, evil leech. Neither is true.

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