From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... get.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
2.
... get.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
But the wise family will admire him for what he is
trying to be, rather than
for what he is trying to get.
3.
... get a
basis for daily living, and ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
4.
... get a
better idea of how you ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
5.
... get a
break.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
6.
... get a
cool and skeptical reception.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may be tipped over in
the other direction
when, in rare cases, we get a cool and skeptical reception.
7.
... get a
full knowledge of your condition.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... get a
large supply of liquor and ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
9.
... get a
new attitude, a new relationship ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover the obstacles
in our path.
10.
... get a
sandwich.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
11.
... get a
secondhand benefit.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
12.
... get a
warped yet definite satisfaction.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
13.
... get a
worked-for promotion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
14.
... get along
better without its "God nonsense."
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
15.
... get along
without him, who constantly connives ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The bleeding deacon is
one who is just as surely convinced that the
group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for
reelection to office,
and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.
16.
... get along
without liquor, but how can ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
17.
Get an
idea of his behavior, his ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Get an idea of his behavior, his problems,
his background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
18.
... get away
with a few drinks now ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?
19.
... get away
with it.
BB p.108,
To Wives
20.
... get away
with them.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
21.
... get back
to that sunlit beach -- or ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
22.
... get completely
away from our aversion to ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the
avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
23.
... get down
to causes and conditions.
BB p.64,
How It Works
24.
... get down
to our right size.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
25.
... get drunk.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
26.
... get drunk?"
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
27.
... get drunk?
BB p.70,
How It Works
28.
... get drunk.
BB p.147,
To Employers
29.
... get drunk
every night, but in order ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
30.
... get drunk,
feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
31.
... get drunk
-- for at the time, you ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He browbeat everybody, and everybody expected that
he'd soon get drunk -- for at the time, you see, A.A. was on the pious side.
32.
... get far
in any direction if he ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and
love under his own roof.
33.
... get good
and drunk then.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
34.
... get here
at Philadelphia General are mostly ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General
Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we
get here at Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
35.
Get him
to tell some of his.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
Get him to tell some of his.
36.
... get his
brand of spirituality while there ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may tell mother, who has
been religious all her life, that she doesn't know what
it's all about, and that she had better get his brand of spirituality while there
is yet time.
37.
... get his
direct comment and counsel on ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The benefit of talking
to another person is that
we can get his direct comment and counsel on our
situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.
38.
... get hurt
by people who, like us, ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
39.
... get into
any trouble.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
40.
... get it!
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
'Now I get it!
41.
... get it
at my convenience.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
42.
... get it
-- then you are ready to ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps.
43.
... get its
direction?
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
44.
... get me.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
45.
... get me
back there in some way, ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
46.
... get me
straightened around.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
47.
... get more
liquor for the next night, ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
48.
... get my
friends to smuggle me a ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
49.
... get my
job at the office -- security; ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
50.
... get nowhere
if he drank at all.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
51.
... get on
his feet in business, or ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
He may either plunge into
a frantic attempt to
get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
52.
... get on
their feet moneywise, and still ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have
some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
53.
... get on
with the business of being ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something
one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
54.
... get out."
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
55.
... get out
of the occasion.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
56.
... get out
of the show?
BB p.61,
How It Works
And do not his actions make
each of them wish to retaliate, snatching
all they can get out of the show?
57.
... get over
alcoholism.
BB p.114,
To Wives
58.
... get over
drinking for good.
BB p.112,
To Wives
59.
... get over
drinking until we have done ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
Simply we tell him that we
will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.
60.
... get over
drinking will require a transformation ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
61.
... get over
drinking, you need not be ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
62.
... get over
it, and if you are ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
63.
... get over
it, you may already be ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking -- "What do I have to do?"
64.
... get over
my craving for liquor much ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
65.
... get over
the idea that the Higher ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
66.
... get over
them, too.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
67.
... get perspective
on ourselves, which is another ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
For we had started to get
perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining
in humility.
68.
... get quite
far off the beam.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
69.
... get results,
even though it was impossible ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We found that as soon as we
were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe
in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced
to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to
fully define or comprehend that Power,
which is God.
70.
... get rid
of such overwhelming compulsions and ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we possibly summon the resolution and
the willingness to get
rid of such overwhelming compulsions and desires?
71.
... get rid
of that terrible sense of ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
72.
... get rid
of them promptly and without ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them promptly and without regret.
73.
... get right
down to fundamentals.
BB p.120,
To Wives
74.
... get right
with ourselves and with the ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that
we can begin to get right with ourselves and
with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
75.
... get sober
and to stay sober, you ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
76.
... get sober,
some others had.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
77.
... get something
we demanded.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The chief activator of
our defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to
get something we demanded.
78.
... get started
again?"
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, "For God's sake, how did I ever get started again?"
79.
... get terribly
upset when I saw my ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but
I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it
so frightfully that it was withdrawn.
80.
... get that
"no angle" stuff?
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
81.
... get the
book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
82.
... get the
feeling that we could be ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought
or done.
83.
... get the
jay-walking idea out of his ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
84.
... get, the
resources to meet these calamities ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
85.
... get the
same great chance for sobriety ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
86.
... get them
to see it!(*)
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
87.
... get tight
again.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I got tight that night, stayed sober Monday till after the dinner, and then proceeded
to get tight again.
88.
... get tight,
and my wife dared not ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
We could not be invited out
because I would surely
get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.
89.
... get together.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
90.
... get-togethers, it
became customary to set apart ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by
anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
91.
... get under
way by consideration of questions ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
92.
... get up,
but if our experience is ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
93.
... get up
in the morning, shake your ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Of an evening, you can go on
a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.
94.
... get us
by.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
95.
... get us
by in life, according, of ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
96.
... get used
to that quite quickly.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Though we may at first be
startled to realize
that God knows all about us,
we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.
97.
... get way
off the track.
BB p.68,
How It Works
98.
... get well.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
99.
... get well?
BB p.142,
To Employers
Say that you believe he is a
gravely ill person, with this qualification -- being
perhaps fatally ill, does he want to get well?
100.
... get well.
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who
should have been fired long
ago, or else given an opportunity to
get well.
101.
... get well,
ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
But what about his responsibilities --
his family and the men who
would die because they would
not know how to get well, ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?
102.
... get well,
and make it possible for ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
103.
... get well,
little charity, in the ordinary ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to
get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
104.
... get well
on their own steam, but ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together
what we could not do separately.
105.
... get well
or you are not.
BB p.142,
To Employers
106.
... get well
regardless of anyone.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
107.
... get well,
to stop drinking forever?
BB p.142,
To Employers
108.
... get well
whose families have not returned ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
109.
... get well
you will do anything to ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
110.
... get worse,
never better.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
111.
... get worse,
the husband becomes a sick ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who
needs to be looked after and extricated from
endless scrapes and impasses.
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