What does 'get across' in this interrogative sentence mean?
Well, to sum up, what is the message that you are trying to get across?
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If one tries to "get across" a message, then it is an attempt to make someone understand the message. So in the example, a person is asking "what is the message you want me to understand?"
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"to get across" is a casual way of saying "to convey" or "to communicate".
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