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Get on

verb

Have smooth relations. Synonyms: get along, get along with, get on with.

Get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.). Synonym: board.

Get up on the back of. Synonyms: bestride, climb on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up.

Grow late or (of time) elapse.

Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio. Synonym: be on.

Develop in a positive way. Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, progress, shape up. "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"

Grow old or older. Synonyms: age, maturate, mature, senesce. "We age every day--what a depressing thought!" , "Young men senesce"

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"Get on" Quotes from Famous Books

... to confess, "it's one of the richest roads in the country. The stock stands at about 180. But I'm really afraid we shall be late to supper if we don't get on," I broke off; though I was not altogether sorry to arrive after the porter had disposed of the baggage. I dreaded another display of active sympathy on the part of my strange companion; I have often felt sorry myself for the porters ...

— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells

... advertisement. I have known careers founded on a pair of white spats. There is Simpkins, for example. I remember quite well when he first came to the club in white spats. We all smiled and said it was like Simpkins. He was pushful, meant to get on, and had set up white spats as a part of his stock-in-trade. We knew Simpkins, of course, and discounted the white spats; but they made a great impression on his clients, and he forged ahead from that day. Now he wears a fur-lined coat, drives his own motor-car, and has a man in livery to ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... flustered and made more and worse mistakes, till Mick began to lose patience. The boy was really doing his best, and he had even taken off his much-prized trousers and shirt in order not to be hindered by them. But somehow he didn't get on at all well; the brands were either not hot enough, or he hadn't succeeded in keeping the handles cool, or he was short of wood, or an extra strong gust of wind had blown his fire nearly ...

— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman

... Launceston there had arrived, an hour before sailing, an American gentleman—a certain Mr. Horace Fletcher, who, having been called home suddenly, had had to take what accommodation he could get on the first available boat. Two days later he had lain unconscious, strapped to the captain's table, whilst the ship's doctor, a young man, himself in the horrible throes of seasickness, had performed a radical operation for acute mastoiditis. There had been no facilities. ...

— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie

... Courts branch of the Equity Bank where Sir Horace kept his account. It occurred to me that a look at Sir Horace's account might help us. You know the sort of man he was—you know his weakness for the ladies. But he was careful. I looked through his private papers out at Riversbrook expecting to get on the track of something that would show some one had been trying to blackmail him over an entanglement with a woman, but I found nothing. I couldn't even find any feminine correspondence. If Sir Horace ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

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