get on with

English

Verb

get on with (third-person singular simple present gets on with, present participle getting on with, simple past got on with, past participle (UK) got on with or (US) gotten on with)

1. (transitive) To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.

   Turn off the television and get on with your homework.

   Now that the technical difficulties have been taken care of, let's get on with the show!

   I have to get on with my spring cleaning.

   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

     My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!

   • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49:

     TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.

   • 2023 April 21, John Crace, “Psycho goes down raging: the liberal wokerati finally get to Raab”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Never better,” the Raabster spat back. “Just get on with it. What’s the score?”

2. (transitive) To have a good relationship with.

   Synonym: get along with

   Peter did not get on with his mother-in-law.

3. (transitive) To successfully use or adapt to.

   I just can't get on with these new glasses.

Synonyms

• (proceed with): begin, continue, keep on, get on, proceed, start, commence

Translations

proceed with

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: անցնել (hy) (ancʻnel), ձեռնամուխ լինել (jeṙnamux linel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼續／继续 (zh) (jìxù), 持續／持续 (zh) (chíxù)

• Czech: dát se do toho, jít na to
• Dutch: aan de gang gaan met, doorgaan (nl)
• Finnish: aloittaa (fi), käydä käsiksi
• French: retourner à
• German: fortfahren (de), sich begeben (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: andar logo com
• Russian: приступа́ть (ru) impf (pristupátʹ), приступи́ть (ru) pf (pristupítʹ) (+ к (k) + dative case), продолжа́ть (ru) impf (prodolžátʹ), продолжи́ть (ru) pf (prodolžítʹ) (to continue)
• Spanish: (proceed) hacer (es), realizar (es), proceder (es) con; (begin) comenzar (es), empezar (es); (continue) continuar (es) con, seguir (es) con, proseguir (es) con
• Vietnamese: quay lại (vi), tiếp tục (vi)

get along with — see get along with

See also

• get on with you

References

• “get on with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.