To ‘get on’ (well or ill); to experience good or bad fortune or treatment.

With adverbs: To succeed or fare well, ill, etc.

intransitive. To go about one's business; to busy oneself; to proceed. Obsolete.

intransitive. To have or enjoy luck (of a specified kind); to fare (well or badly). Also with non-referential it as subject. Obsolete.

intransitive. To fare, get on (well or badly); to act, to do things; to occupy oneself with something. Obsolete.

intransitive. To gain ground, make progress; to prosper, succeed. Also (in neutral sense): to fare, go (well, ill, etc.). Obsolete.

To manage to effect one's purposes, or to make a living, by one's own devices; to succeed, get on (well or ill). Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive. colloquial. To make shift, get along; to succeed, thrive; to get on (well, badly, etc.).

intransitive. To prosper, succeed. Frequently in to get on in the world: see world, n. phrases 16c. Also: to fare (in some specified way, or with a…