get anywhere

idiom

: to make progress

—used in negative statements and in questions

Are you getting anywhere?

We're working hard but we don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Examples of get anywhere in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Keep in mind that Gitlin must keep performing well to get anywhere near the maximum payout. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 May 2024 Loyola can get anywhere between the Nos. 1 and 5 seeds for next week’s Patriot League Tournament via 32 tiebreaker scenarios. —

Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024 Still, much more research is required before doctors get anywhere close to prescribing these potential therapies to chronic Lyme patients. —

TIME, 16 May 2024 Gamble, seeing there was no way to get anywhere with the chancellor playing the simpleton, opened the floor to softball questions. —

Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024 Parker’s straightforward questions about who ordered the AI to kill Lt. Greene don’t get anywhere, so Silcott takes over with a sideways approach. —

Sara Netzley, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024 Flagstaff and Williams were forecast to receive 9 to 13 inches of snow, Kachina Village and Munds Park were expecting 9 to 15 inches of snow, and Forest Lakes, near Show Low, could get anywhere from 13 to 19 inches. —

Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2024 The Oura Ring, for context, can get anywhere between three to five days in our testing; the Ultrahuman Ring Air lasts roughly four days. —

Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024 Yet, the oceanic crust that makes up a majority of the planet's surface doesn't get anywhere near as well. —

Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024

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