# get lost

Pronunciation: US say "get LAWST" /ˌɡɛt ˈlɔst/; UK/AUS say "get LOST" /ˌɡɛt ˈlɒst/

## Idiom

1. To lose one's way, no longer knowing where one is or which way to go.
   - Simple: To not know where you are or how to get where you are going.
   - _Without cell service, it's easy to get lost on the back roads._
   - _Halfway through the lecture I got lost in all the equations._
3. Of an object, to go missing, so that whoever is looking for it does not know where it is.
   - Simple: To go missing and be hard to find, used about things.
   - _Important files tend to get lost when an office moves._
   - _Her luggage got lost somewhere between Denver and Chicago._
4. To be absent, or to seem to be absent, for example by being drowned out or overlooked.
   - Simple: To be missing, or to seem missing because you can't notice it among other things.
   - _In a big orchestra, a single flute can easily get lost._
   - _The report's main point gets lost under pages of statistics._
5. To leave the scene and go away, used mostly in commands or in reporting what someone was told.
   - Simple: To go away and leave, often because someone told you to.
   - _When the photographers wouldn't stop following her, she told them to get lost._
   - _Sensing an argument coming, the kids got lost before anyone could send them away._

## Idiom

2. Used to tell someone rudely to go away or to leave you alone. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A rude way to tell someone to go away.
   - _"Get lost," he snapped at the reporter who had followed him to his car._
   - _Oh, get lost. Nobody asked for your opinion._

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