get round to doing something• A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.• Chapter Ten Charles got round to the StageDoor as quickly as he could.• Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge.• I couldn't get round to ringing until now.• It is high time that Wolverhampton got round to proposing some reorganisations.• It loves jobs that no human would ever get round to -- or find time to finish.• We just never seemed to get round to them.• Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver?