单词 | to get along |
释义 | > as lemmasto get along to get along 1. intransitive. a. To proceed, progress, advance. Also (frequently in the progressive): to depart, go on one's way, get going. Also formerly: †to go in company with. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)] goeOE lithec900 nimOE fare971 shakeOE strikea1000 gangOE gengOE seekc1000 glidea1275 wevec1300 hove1390 drevea1400 sway?a1400 wainc1540 discoursea1547 yede1563 trot1612 to get along1683 locomove1792 locomote1831 1683 F. C. Ph. tr. Crafty Lady 118 The Major,..seeing her so much moved, gets along with her into the room, offers to comfort her. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 19 I have only just set out upon my travels; and shall learn better manners as I get along. 1797 R. Proud Hist. Pennsylvania II. App. Pt. ii. 73 They surrounded me with drawn knives in their hands, in such a manner, that I could hardly get along. 1832 W. Cobbett Let. 7 Oct. in Tour in Scotl. (1833) 74 I must get along; beginning to feel devilishly home-sick since I left Newcastle. 1839 New World 2 Nov. 4/3 It is so everlasting slippy out, I cood n't get along no how, every step I took forrard, I went two steps backward. 1889 C. L. Pirkis At Moment of Victory III. x. 158 She gets along faster in the wind than Havelock. 1897 B. Harte Three Partners vi. 271 I must be getting along... I've got to catch a train at Three Boulders Station. 1921 S. K. Aiyangar S. India & her Muhammadan Invaders vi. 161 They preferred to get along through forest tracts by secret path-ways. 1969 I. Murdoch Bruno's Dream xxii. 189 ‘You're drunk, aren't you.’ ‘Yes. Now I really must be getting along’. 1977 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Mar. 1331/2 I..got along slowly with two sticks. 2007 Z. Roos Sea Spray & Cherry Peppers 94 When three of the six weeks had passed and Daniel could get along on crutches, Stuurman received his first disability pension. b. In imperative. Go away. Chiefly in get along with you (formerly also figurative ‘stop it, be quiet’). colloquial (somewhat archaic). ΚΠ 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Amphitryon iii. 129 in Sel. Comedies VII Get along, my dear Friend, take my Word for't, no body minds you here. 1785 J. O'Keeffe Peeping Tom of Coventry i. 14 Mayor. Get along with you..drives the two men out. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 331 Get along, you horned thing. 1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 10 May 120/2 ‘Get along, you old Scotch fool,’ cried the clerk. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiv. 135 ‘Get along with you, you wretch,’ said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill pleased with the compliment, however. 1879 J. R. Planché King Charming ii. ii. 117 You wish to see the King! a slut like you! Go, get along with you, you hussy, do! 1906 M. Merington Captain Lettarblair iii. i. 169 Polly Is he young and handsome? Let's ask him to join us. Seton Certainly not!—Get along with you. 1923 J. Colton & C. Randolph Rain i. 7 Get along, you scamps. 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xxiii. 306 Now get along with you, and don't let me hear of your using that filthy word again! 2004 D. Frye tr. J. J. F. de Lizardi Mangy Parrot 345 Get along with you, off to your gentlemen friends with their capes and their cloaks, and don't set foot in here again until you can bring a peso to gamble. 2. intransitive. a. Originally U.S. To get on, fare (well, ill); to succeed, find no insurmountable difficulties; to manage, esp. without something. Cf. to get on at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] wadec1374 passc1387 proceeda1393 followa1400 to pass ona1400 to get forward1523 pace1597 step1599 to get on1655 to get along1768 to tide one's way1827 to come along1844 press1870 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] speedc1175 fayc1300 provec1300 flourishc1400 passc1425 prosper1434 succeedc1450 to take placea1464 to come well to (our) pass1481 shift?1533 hitc1540 walka1556 fadge1573 thrive1587 work1599 to come (good) speedc1600 to go off1608 sort1613 go1699 answer1721 to get along1768 to turn up trumps1785 to come off1854 pan1865 scour1871 arrive1889 to work out1899 to ring the bell1900 to go over1907 click1916 happen1949 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress furtherc1200 profit1340 to go alongc1400 to get forward1523 advance1577 proceedc1592 to take or make strides1600 to get on1655 to get along1768 to get ahead1807 to be well away1821 to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923 ramp1980 1768 J. Parsons Funeral Serm. 12 God not only bro't him into great inward and outward Distress, but left him friendless, alone to get along as he could. 1831 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (1832) I. iii. 32 I was then new to the Western America, and unaccustomed to their mode of ‘getting along’, as they term it. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing xvii. 81 I wish you'd write me..whether you think I could get along with the business [of Governorship]. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvi. 261 But she'll get along in heaven better than you or I. 1868 C. Dickens Let. 28 Feb. (2002) XII. 63 Some of those halls turn out to be smaller than represented, but I have no doubt, to use an American expression, that we shall ‘get along’. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 145 You are wanted there, and we can get along without you! 1922 C. S. Parker Working with Working Woman vi. 185 Bridget, the dear old soul, came down that afternoon to see how I was getting along. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 June 27/8 We could get along for a month on what a modern kid might receive from his parents for one Saturday night fling. 1971 R. Allen Suedehead xv. 106 The hell with you and the Marylebone Martyrs… I'll get along on my tod. 2004 D. Braybrooke Utilitarianism iii. v. 152 People can't get along without shelter any more than they can get along without food, can they? b. To agree, act, or live harmoniously with (a person). Also: (of more than one person) to agree, act, or live harmoniously with one another (frequently with together). Cf. to get on 8 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb] > act or live harmoniously together to get along1805 1805 Echo 4 Mar. 169 To meet with squatters of a different race, With whom, perhaps, possess'd of better right, We cannot get along unless we fight. 1875 B. L. Farjeon Love's Victory xi You and Mr. Barton do not seem to get along well together. 1881 London Society June 611/2 Each seemed so desperately anxious to make the other pleased. They got along like a house on fire. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 501/2 If they wished to get along well with him they must let him have his own way. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 18/1 (advt.) Glass and steel don't get along together. Heat and cold make them expand and contract at different rates. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 13/2 I get along pretty good with my parents most of the time, but the thing we don't get along too good about is school. 2005 Vanity Fair Jan. 149/2 Despite our different viewpoints, we still got along like a house on fire. < as lemmas |
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