get into trouble

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Verb

get into trouble

  1. (intransitive) To be punished for doing something illegal or prohibited.
  2. (intransitive) To fall into difficulty.
  3. (slang, euphemistic, usually said of an unmarried woman) To become pregnant; to make pregnant.
    He got a girl into trouble and had to marry her.