to get stuck on
2
5.4
- phrasal verb
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quedarse atascado en
- When discussing the project, don't get stuck on minor details that won't change the outcome.
- getting stuck on a thought
- getting stuck on one
So that's one reason people get stuck on on toxic relationships.
- So that's one reason people get stuck on on toxic relationships.
- Even Fannie Willis's defenders get stuck on this point.
- And this is where people will get stuck on the plan.
- When they're telling a story from an autobiographical angle, they get stuck on the idea of, well, that didn't happen.
- So now it's got a way of crawling its way through this vast space without getting stuck on the local maxima as suggested by this.
- I think the the biggest, most most popular one, which a lot of people get stuck on is the whole features versus benefits conversation.
- But there's part of me for whatever reason that gets stuck on doing it myself and doesn't even consider that it doesn't enter my head as an option.
- And the mental churning, getting stuck on something they said, doubting yourself because of the gas lighting, being on edge all the time.
- Wow, I got stuck on a loop nicely.
- So people get so stuck on valuations, they get so stuck on and don't understand who's they're investing in is you.
- The culture is a little bit different, you know, I've enjoyed it, but I also see why some people can get, could get stuck up on that.
Examples
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I love having that duality because when I get stuck on the creative stuff, I can switch gears and do the organizational stuff.
Blog text (5) -
However, all three contestants kept getting stuck on the half-court shot, so no one got to take home the prize.
Blog text (30) -
We see it beyond and it's this idea that we get so often so stuck on being right.
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If you get stuck on something, you need to move on, or that could be the end of your lab attempt.
Blog text (30) -
You can't get too stuck on the result.
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You shouldn't get stuck on names.
Fiction book (1993) -
So that's one reason people get stuck on on toxic relationships.
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If your child gets stuck on a word, wait a few seconds and then encourage him/her to: read the sentence again and think about words that would make sense; look at the word for parts that he/she knows; or think about what would sound right.
Blog text (12) -
We'd been studying Greek mythology in school, and Raymond had gotten stuck on those nymphs.
Fiction book (2000) -
If I did get stuck on a problem, I’d ask a classmate, and together we’d try to solve it.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
304
5.5
To think about something so much that it makes you worried
46
7.0
To think about someone or something all the time
26
6.0
Think too much about something so you feel unhappy
16
5.1
Not able to move past a problem or stop thinking about it
8
4.5
Spend too much time thinking or talking about something
7
8.4
To become too involved in small details and forget the main idea
1
8.3
Giving too much attention to small details that you lose sight of the main goal
Give too much attention to one thing and ignore others
Antonyms
How Fixated
26
6.0
2
5.4
∞
2.0
- Formal
11
6.2
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to focus excessively on something' is directly derivable from 'get' (become) + 'stuck' (unable to progress) + 'on' (about/with) because the mental sense is a natural extension of physical stuckness. This verb+adjective+preposition pattern and the metaphorical mapping are common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Get stuck on comes from the picture of something getting physically stuck on another thing, like gum on a shoe, so you cannot move forward. So when someone 'gets stuck on' a small point, they focus on it so much they cannot move on to other things.