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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

get over at someone

English answer:

stayed over at someone's (house)

Added to glossary by Teangacha (X)
Jul 29, 2020 16:46
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English term

get over at someone

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters get over at someone
I was working late, so get over at Paula's.

Is that good English, to use "get over"? The speaker is lying actually about where she was last night.

Thanks in advance,
Responses
3 +2 stayed over at someone's (house)
4 remained at Paul's
4 -1 Either get over or stay at
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Aug 2, 2020 22:06: Teangacha (X) Created KOG entry

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PRO (1): philgoddard

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Discussion

S.J (asker) Aug 2, 2020:
Thank you all.
Arabic & More Jul 30, 2020:
In the US, we would use stay-over to mean spending the night at someone's house (e.g., the kids had a stay-over last week). Here, it sounds like the person misspoke. Maybe they meant "stay-over" (in the sense used above) or "get-together" since a get-together means a small, informal gathering or party. If the person was lying, it may be that she was fumbling around for the right thing to say, so this could be why she mixed two common expressions together...resulting in the non-sensical "get over" (unless this turns out to be a regional expression as suggested by philgoddard, which is also possible).
S.J (asker) Jul 29, 2020:
It is foreign language, so I couldn't be sure. But the English one looked weird to me. So maybe it is a transcription error. Thank you.
philgoddard Jul 29, 2020:
Or it could be some kind of regional English - Caribbean, maybe?
Yvonne Gallagher Jul 29, 2020:
@ Asker Agree with Tony that probably meant to be "slept over". A transcription error? (they sound similar)
Tony M Jul 29, 2020:
@ Asker I don't know if this is some kind of US slang, but it sounds grammatically all wrong; the sequence of tenses 'I was working' so 'get over' is quite wrong.
It sounds almost like a transcription error: I might have expected 'slept over', and 'get' / 'slept' could perhaps be mistaken? Otherwise, i reall can't even imagine what the expression is even intended to mean?

Responses

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stayed over at someone's (house)

I think they are trying to say 'I had to work late, so I stayed over at Paula's house'. 'Get over' is not correct.

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Note added at 10 mins (2020-07-29 16:57:07 GMT)
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Tony is correct. The original sentence is grammatically incorrect.

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Note added at 38 mins (2020-07-29 17:24:30 GMT)
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https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stay over
stay over
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus.

stay over
1. To spend the night at someone else's home or at some form of lodging.
My son is staying over at his friend's house tonight.
It's getting late, so why don't you both stay over in our spare room?
Our flight's been cancelled, so we're going to have to stay over at a hotel.
2. By extension, to spend the night in someone's bed, with the implication of having sex with them.
Are you sure you're ready for him to stay over? You've only been going out for a couple weeks.

stay over (somewhere)
to stay overnight in a dwelling other than one's own. Can I stay over at Jimmy's tonight? No, you can't stay over.

stay over
Remain overnight, as in We hadn't planned to stay over but the bad weather changed our plans.

In this case, since the person is feeling the need to lie about where they have been, it is option 1.
Peer comment(s):
agree Anastasia Andriani
12 hrs
Thanks, Anastasia!
agree Charlotte Fleming : "I was working late so got over to Paula's": in the UK (I don't know about other forms of English) we use "get over to" as an alternative to "go over to". The speaker may be mixing her tenses naturally because she's talking, not writing; people do that!
16 hrs
Thanks, Charlotte!
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6 hrs

Either get over or stay at

"Get over" is a phrasal verb. Get over someone means to stop paying attention to or stop being infatuated by......
"Stay" or, "stay over" even though the 'over' is awkward, means that someone stays somewhere, that they don't leave the place they are in.
So first option is that
"I was working late, so get over sleeping at Paula's"(meaning that sleeping at Paula will not be possible)
Or
"I was working late, so stay at Paula's during night time".
Probably a spelling error, as someone else has said.
Peer comment(s):
disagree Yvonne Gallagher : "get over at" is quite clearly wrong here and tense is wrong too
15 hrs
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16 hrs

remained at Paul's

He stayed there
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