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get over at someone

English translation: stayed over at someone's (house)

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English term or phrase:get over at someone
Selected answer:stayed over at someone's (house)
Entered by: Teangacha (X)

16:46 Jul 29, 2020
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: 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,
S.J
Canada
Local time: 04:57
stayed over at someone's (house)
Explanation:
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
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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.
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Teangacha (X)
Ireland
Local time: 09:57
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Thank you.
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +2stayed over at someone's (house)
Teangacha (X)
4remained at Paul's
adel almergawy
4 -1Either get over or stay at
Gabriel Ferrero


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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
stayed over at someone's (house)


Explanation:
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.

Teangacha (X)
Ireland
Local time: 09:57
Native speaker of: English
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Either get over or stay at


Explanation:
"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.

Gabriel Ferrero
France
Local time: 10:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: "get over at" is quite clearly wrong here and tense is wrong too
15 hrs
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
remained at Paul's


Explanation:
He stayed there

adel almergawy
Egypt
Local time: 10:57
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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