Learn English – Get back your money, or Get your money back

phrase-usage

a) Get your money back.
b) Get back your money.

Someone says the both sentences are almost similar in the meaning, and exchangable.

But For me, the both meanings are taken like a) and b).

a) means the money is yours so you have to ask someone the money back.

b) means the money is not yours so you have to return it.

please explain for this.

Best Answer

To this American English speaker, the meanings are exactly the same. Get back in this sense means "retrieve", and as you have written the sentences, they're both imperatives, commanding someone else to retrieve their money. Neither one implies anything about whether the money is really yours or not, or whether you are asking for it or returning it. Maybe you're confusing it with "Give back your money?"

The first phrasing is the more common one. When you make a sentence like that, you can think of it like

Get (get what?)
your money (get your money how, or where?)
back.

It is certainly possible to change the word order, as in the title Gimme Back My Bullets, but the first order is the more common one.