Tie the knot

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

Is there any difference between the idiom to tie the knot and the expression to get married? Is the idiom used in informal English?

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello.

Is there any difference between the idiom "to tie the knot" and the expression "to get married"? Is the idiom used in informal English?

Within the relevant context, they mean the same thing. I probably wouldn't use it in a formal letter but that doesn't necessarily mean it's used only in informal English.

 

[Rover_KE]

Dear me, Rachel – after all those posts we shouldn't have to be adding quotation marks for you.:-(

 

[Rachel Adams]

Dear me, Rachel – after all those posts we shouldn't have to be adding quotation marks for you.:-(

I am really sorry. I am trying to get used to typing on my phone. I reread my posts and edit them.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Dear me, Rachel – after all those posts we shouldn't have to be adding quotation marks for you.:-(

When you use "to get married" do you use it to talk about both men and women? For example, "She/he got married." "He married her," or "She married him."

 

[Rover_KE]

We use all combinations of the above alternatives, and additionally 'She married her' and 'He married him'.

 

[Tdol]

You can also the combinations with those who use the pronoun they/them, but we're going to get a long list if we add she married them, he married them, they married them.

 

[Yankee]

I am really sorry. I am trying to get used to typing on my phone. I reread my posts and edit them.

Me too. But I have an excuse. I'm a "lefty". :-D

 

[Rachel Adams]

Me too. But I have an excuse. I'm a "lefty". :-D

I am not. So I have to be really careful.

 

[Rachel Adams]

You can also the combinations with those who use the pronoun they/them, but we're going to get a long list if we add she married them, he married them, they married them.

But there is also "to get married to." He got married to her. She got married to him. Or just he got married. Right?

 

[jutfrank]

But there is also "to get married to." He got married to her. She got married to him.

I suggest you don't use those patterns. Just say He married her or She married him.

 

[emsr2d2]

We tend to use "get/married" when we lump the two people together. In BrE, "They got married in 2011" is more common than "They married in 2011".
It's also more common when using the continuous:

When are you getting married?
We're getting married next year.
We were supposed to be getting married this weekend but we've had to postpone it until 2021.

All of those would be grammatically correct with "marrying" instead of "getting married" but, for me, much less natural (and less common).

 

[Rachel Adams]

We tend to use "get/married" when we lump the two people together. In BrE, "They got married in 2011" is more common than "They married in 2011".
It's also more common when using the continuous:

When are you getting married?
We're getting married next year.
We were supposed to be getting married this weekend but we've had to postpone it until 2021.

All of those would be grammatically correct with "marrying" instead of "getting married" but, for me, much less natural (and less common).

I was going to ask about '' They got married'' vs ''They married.''Thank you. I thought ''they married...'' was wrong.

 

[Rachel Adams]

I suggest you don't use those patterns. Just say He married her or She married him.

OK. I won't use them. But what's exactly wrong with them? Are they less common?

 

[tedmc]

OK. I won't use them. But what's exactly wrong with them? Are they less common?

We usually say she was married to somebody or she got married. She got married to somebody is not the proper way to say it.

 

[GoesStation]

We usually say she was married to somebody or she got married.

The first is generally used only if they're not married anymore.

 

[Tarheel]

You could also say:

They got married to each other.

 

[Tarheel]

We usually say she was married to somebody or she got married. She got married to somebody is not the proper way to say it.

Susan got married to Ralph.
:?:

 

[Tdol]

Susan got married to Ralph.
:?:

In BrE, I would use Susan married Ralph. I might use got married to if the circumstances were unusual or exceptional.