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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. Antonym: get off.

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

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" Antonym: regress.

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

... counsel me to blow my life away. Hold your lamp out here so that I can see to get on my horse." ...

— An Arkansas Planter • Opie Percival Read

... horses they would kick, buck and neigh as if a wolf had been at hand; mules stampeded at his sight; cats bolted as if he were about to beat them; and camels were restless and made most fearful noises of disapproval and distress at his approach. When he tried to get on and off, the kneeling camel would suddenly spring up again, causing him to fall, and when he did get on the saddle the vicious brutes would assume a most unusual and uncomfortable jerky motion, ...

— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... not been any less unlucky than I have," I returned. "And how did you get on with ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... parents found it a hard struggle to get on. 'My father,' said the Reformer, 'was a poor miner; my mother carried in all the wood upon her back; they worked the flesh off their bones to bring us up: no one nowadays would ever have such endurance.' It must not, however, ...

— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... delayed doing so until the King ordered her. When once the frog was on the chair, he wanted to get on the table, and there he sat ...

— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

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