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词组 over with
释义 over with
      Over with has been cited as an error or as a colloquialism in usage handbooks throughout the 20th century. The critics typically regard the with as superfluous. Some advise using over by itself; others express a preference for finished or ended. Our evidence indicates that over with occurs primarily in speech and in writing that has the informal quality of speech. It serves especially to express a desire or determination to have something unpleasant done or finished as soon as possible:
      I will be real glad when this television thing is over with —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 18 May 1955
      Its most characteristic use is with the verb get:
      We may both live to be sorry we didn't go through school... and get it over with —Robert Frost, letter, 26 May 1926
      ... talked of the need "to get this over with, the best way we can." —Eric F. Goldman, Harper's, January 1969
      We want to tackle a problem and get it over with — Henry Huglin, Center Mag., January/February 1970
      The Carter administration, no doubt, will now try to ignore the flap and get the renominations over with — Wall Street Jour., 3 June 1980
      Such usage is perfectly idiomatic and need not be avoided in an appropriate context.
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