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Get along   /gɛt əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Get along

verb
1.
Proceed or get along.  Synonyms: come, do, fare, make out.  "How are you making out in graduate school?" , "He's come a long way"
2.
Have smooth relations.  Synonyms: get along with, get on, get on with.
3.
Develop in a positive way.  Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get on, progress, shape up.  "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"  Antonym: regress.



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"Get along" Quotes from Famous Books



... great, strong thing, why should I? May be you do want a little praise. I never saw anybody get along as well as you do, nowadays; you have altered very much; I ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard

... like a man; so when enemies come this here bird sets up an awful clatter and squawkin' and that warns the hippopotamus and so he can run or defend himself. And if it wasn't for women, men couldn't get along, because they have to be warned and told things all the time, and given pointers what to do and how to act, and what is goin' on around—and the fact is women is brains, and men ...
— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

... warlike barons did the suspicious imbecilities of reading and writing. The sword now, as then, seems so much more direct a way to terminate controversies, that many Christian men, even, cannot conceive how the world is to get along without it. ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe

... do not reach; and every where is 'such an appetite for news as was never seen in any country.' Let an expeditious Dampmartin, on furlough, set out to return home from Paris, (Dampmartin, i. 184.) he cannot get along for 'peasants stopping him on the highway; overwhelming him with questions:' the Maitre de Poste will not send out the horses till you have well nigh quarrelled with him, but asks always, What news? At Autun, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... $18.00 a month, and said it was not easy to get along on that little amount, and wondered if the government was ever going to increase ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration


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