get to grass
get to grass verb: to leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster.
Verb
get to grass (third-person singular simple present gets to grass, present participle getting to grass, simple past got to grass, past participle (UK) got to grass or (US) gotten to grass)
- To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster.
- “Come along. No fear of the water coming in, or I'd soon say let's get to grass.”1896, George Manville Fenn, Sappers and Miners; The Flood beneath the Sea, chapter 42, “Mining Matters”
- Men working at deep mines started work after a long and tiring descent, and near the end of their shift they held back on their effort, so they would have enough energy left to “get to grass.”1991, Larry Lankton, “The Underground: Change and Continuity”, in Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines, chapter 2, page 33
Forms of get to grass
| third-person singular present | gets to grass |
|---|---|
| present participle | getting to grass |
| past | got to grass |
| past participle UK | got to grass |
| past participle US | gotten to grass |
Questions about get to grass
- What does get to grass mean?
- Get to grass means to leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster.
- What part of speech is get to grass?
- Get to grass is a verb.
- What is the past tense of get to grass?
- The past tense of get to grass is got to grass.
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