phrasal verb intransitive
Hi, everyone: What does "go along to get along" mean? Is it bad or good for someone to go along to get along? In other words, is this phrase used to show approval or disapproval ?
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It means to agree with others or do what they want in order to preserve harmony.
I suppose it could be a good thing or a bad thing, but to me, it has the connotation of not standing up for one's principles just to avoid confrontation.
Hi hly, To expand a little on jinti's reply: "Go along with" is an idiom that means acquiesce. It does not necessarily imply agreement, just no active disagreement. "Get along" is another idiom. In the sentence "Sue gets along with everyone" it means that Sue does not have quarrels or differences of opinion with anyone; she has a pleasant relationship with everyone.
I've got it,Thank you,jinti and Nun-Translator
Although our culture promotes individuality there are situations in which it is essential to behave according to specific rules. My father, who served as a medic in WW II, told us that the phrase "go along to get along" was often repeated in training to ensure harmony among men from such varied backgrounds.
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Great explanation. Thanks.
Go along to get along, son.
Well, I think in the beginning he was going along to get along, but he turned a corner.
You got to go along to get along, right?
So go along to get along?
There's an expression: Go along to get along.
You got to go along to get along.
Sometimes you have to go along to get along
I suspected that Judge Leggoe would go along to get along.
Go along to get along, man.
Go along to get along till I finally win him over.
You go along to get along.
It's very generous and noble, but, when are gonna learn that you've gotta go along to get along?
Right, that makes for go along to get along boyos.
So, " go along to get along. "
You got to go along to get along, Jim.
When you look at innovative organizations, they never go along to get along.
It’ s very generous and noble, but, when are gonna learn that you’ ve gotta go along to get along?
My point is that I think you're more interested in going along to get along than doing the right thing.
So what's really interesting about these groups is that, in times of social stability, people go along to get along with them because they control resources.
She called you out for being a rhino, for going along to get along, for hobnobbing with powerful lame-streamers, for not being born more than once, for reading so-called newspapers...
The Second World War taught us all the tragic price of going along just to get along. |
What does it mean to go along to get along?
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