Couple things here. With “get out of”, you want to use an -ing verb after: “I try to get out of cooking dinner.”

Second, “When I arrive late at home” is fine, but you can simplify it and say, “When I get home late” or slightly more formally, “When I arrive home late”

Yikes! That sounds hard

Yes, in this case, “get out of meeting with him” works because the meeting would have an undesirable consequence (he asks you to do work you can’t do and it’s uncomfortable for you).

The second example is correct too.

Hi Sharon, by “long-run lesson”, it sounds like you mean a training exercise that is a long run. I’m not sure if “lessons” is the word we would use. “Lesson” is more like when someone is guiding you or teaching you something, like in yoga, piano, or karate (or English!). Here, we might say “long-distance running” and instead of “lesson,” maybe “class” would work. You can say,

“After attending my first long-distance running class last week, I had a terrible experience. A typhoon is coming tonight, and I’m getting out of the next class.”

That’s at least predictable! In the suburbs and small cities in the US, the most common is for the garbage truck to come only once per week. They come early in the morning. So most people have large, outdoor trash cans to keep trash bags during the week. Then, the night before, they have to remember to bring the trash bags down to the street so the trucks can pick it up. Believe it or not, it’s called “garbage day.” When I was growing up, Monday was “garbage day.” So on Sunday, my mom would say, “Tomorrow’s garbage day, so let’s clean up as much as possible” so the trash could get out and not sit outside for a week.

Thank you Jeff! That is much simpler expression 😀 Indeed, my brother himself demands a year’s worth of attention in just a single visit. This is horrifying. All our energies are gone by the time he goes home. He wants to be flattered and pampered, not ordered to do household chores.

Also, I am glad I’m not the only one to schedule holiday travel for getting out of family gatherings! I just hope that your siblings are not so demanding or selfish as my big brother, but being with family gets sometimes incredibly stressful, I guess… (By the way, my Big Brother is watching my every movement whenever I am near him. He has an ADHD: Attention that Doesn’t go away due to Hyperactivity Disorder.)

Thanks for corrections. The key for using this expression is in taking responsibility. I would use this instead. I get out of meeting him. I mean I do not want to talk with him because I now if I would, he would immediately ask me to send my workers to his plant to do some winter repairs. I really want avoid responsibility to send my people there because we wouldn´t be able to full fill his demands in time and we won´t be able meet other orders as well.
Maybe some easier example: When driving together my colleague always gets out of driving.

“Putting the garbage outside”, that’s it I mean, thanks Jeff!

And yes, almost like you mentioned as is in Mexico, but here they don’t ringing a bell. We have certain period of the day they go up and down the streets here. It’s not the same time in all city, each neighborhood has your own time, and we need to be aware to take the garbage out during that period of time. In my neighborhood normally it’s untill 11:30 am on Thursday, Tuesday and Friday.