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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

... the third of his students identify Weald in the celestial globe containing hundreds of millions of stars, and get on course in overdrive toward it. The fourth was suddenly required to compute the distance to Weald from such data as he could get from observation, ...

— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster

... "I think we'll get on thus paired off—I and the other dog," he said, taking the chair Joyce indicated and dropping luxuriously back into its spreading seat, with his hands laid along its broad arms. "How delightful this is! Who could have dreamed, a twelve-month ago, ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... that Rosebud saw a great deal of her intended husband. He always called her "Pussy." He used to call on her at the school and take her walking and buy her candy at a Turkish shop, called "Lumps of Delight," and did his best to get on well with her, though ...

— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... spoke kinder than usual, and said he should come back; but it didn't deceive me. I knew that the time had come; I was just like one turned into stone; I couldn't speak, nor shed a tear. He kissed me and kissed the children, a good many times, and went out. I saw him get on his horse, and I watched him till he was quite out of sight; and then I fell down, ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... "Show us what you can make of this! You want to be thought our best driver, and you can't get up a little hill like this! Get on! Put your back ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

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