hit it off

Idioms  

1. Get along well together, as in I was so glad that our parents hit it off. In the 17th century this phrase was put simply as hit it, the adverb off being added only in the mid-1800s.

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hit it off

When Jobs eventually met with ESL’s president, Robert Kohler, the two men hit it off, recalled Garry Fuller, who worked for ESL at the time and later joined NeXT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“We hit it off, and we’ve been great buddies since,” Lombardi said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Gussalli Beretta says the two hit it off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

“By then, both of us had been through divorces and she had two small kids—Oliver and Kate—and I had one, Boston. We hit it off and agreed, ‘Let’s have fun until we don’t.’”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

When he came to rehearsal that weekend, we hit it off right away.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson