get on with it

1. see get on, def. 6.

Example Sentences

He said employees struggling with the work days earlier were told: "I don't care how you do it, just get on with it."

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"There is no point looking for excuses or saying 'this isn't fair' or 'isn't nice'. We need to grow a pair and get on with it."

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"We just need to get on with it. I've got a handful of colleagues who really get that. And some who simply don't."

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And some student midwives at the maternity unit said they felt pressure to 'just get on with it' without adequate support, with some of them then being involved in patient medication errors.

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When in the turret discussing who to murder next, he asked fellow traitors singer Cat Burns and presenter Jonathan Ross: "Stephen Fry: Shall we just get on with it and kill him? What's a knighthood when you're dead?"

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• stay 
• survive 
• sustain