get behind

phrasal verb

got behind; got behind or gotten behind; getting behind; gets behind

1

: to fail to do something as quickly as required or expected

We've been getting further (and further) behind (schedule).

We got behind with our car payments.

2

: to support (someone or something)

The proposal may succeed if a few more people get behind it.

Examples of get behind in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And that news was something the White Sox could get behind. —Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025

Before dying in 2014 of complications from the 1981 shooting, Brady and his wife, Sarah Brady, became vocal advocates for gun violence prevention, aiming to show that even Republican gun owners could get behind stricter gun safety measures. —Kyler Alvord, People.com, 9 May 2025

It’s been amazing to get behind the wheel of the Defender D7X‑R prototype for the first time in Morocco. —Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 7 May 2025

In the never-satisfied province of Quebec, which was beginning to talk about another sovereignty referendum, the electorate decided to put the toys back in the crib and get behind Carney on the assumption that there may be no Canada left to leave once Trump is done with us. —Ian Cooper, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025

Rhymes for get behind

• countersigned
• disinclined
• humankind
• interlined
• intertwined
• mastermind
• misaligned
• nonaligned
• predefined
• realigned
• reassigned
• recombined