get on

3. PHRASAL VERB

If you say how someone is getting on, you are saying how much success they are having with what they are trying to do.

• Livy's getting on very well in Russian. She learns very quickly.
• When he came back to see me I asked how he had got on.

4. PHRASAL VERB

If you try to get on, you try to be successful in your career.[mainly BRIT]

• Politics is seen as a man's world. It is very difficult for women to get on.
  

... Cobuild

cf. get on

2. To manage or fare with reasonable success.

3(a). To make progress; continue: get on with a performance.

3(b). To advance in years.

... Am-Heritage

cf. 1. PHRASAL VERB

If you get on with someone, you like them and have a friendly relationship with them.

• The host fears the guests won't get on.    
• What are your neighbours like? Do you get on with them?
• =    get along   

... Cobuild