get round to (something)

get round to (something)

1. To eventually find time to do some task; to come to something or some task after a certain length of time. Do you think you could finally get round to cleaning your room today? It's a pigsty in there! I have so many books that I don't know how I'll get round to each one!
2. To make one's way to some specific destination, especially in order to accomplish a particular task. I'm so busy today that I just don't know when I'll get round to the bank. I need to get round to my apartment during lunch to pick up some things.
See also: get, round
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • an uphill task
  • task
  • cooperate
  • cooperate on (something)
  • work (one's) way through (something)
  • work, etc. your way through something
  • on task
  • go/set about your work
  • Parkinson's law
  • take to task, to