" get on "

[Verb]  | "get on" 

1: get along

2: to gain knowledge or understanding

Origin: 1602 ;

[Verb]  | "get" | \ ˈget \

1: to gain possession of

2: to receive as a return : earn

3: to obtain by concession or entreaty

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, from Old Norse geta to get, beget; akin to Old English bigietan to beget, Latin prehendere to seize, grasp, Greek chandanein to hold, contain;

[Idiom]  | "get on for (something)" 

1: to move toward becoming (a specified age, time, etc.)

[Idiom]  | "get on someone's case" 

1: to nag someone repeatedly

[Idiom]  | "get on someone's nerves" 

1: to become extremely annoying to someone

[Idiom]  | "get on someone's wick" 

1: to annoy someone

[Idiom]  | "get on the stick" 

1: to start working hard at something that one has been avoiding doing

[Idiom]  | "get on with (something or someone)" 

1: to continue doing (something)

2: to be or remain friendly with (someone)

[Noun]  | "an*gle" | \ ˈaŋ-gəl \

1: a corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space

2: the figure formed by two lines extending from the same point; also : dihedral angle

3: a measure of an angle or of the amount of turning necessary to bring one line or plane into coincidence with or parallel to another

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "corner, recess, two lines extending from the same point," borrowed from Anglo-French angle, aungle, going back to Latin angulus "two lines extending from the same point, corner, nook," going back to Indo-European *h2eng-lo-,*h2eng-elo-, whence also Old Church Slavic ǫgŭlŭ "corner, angle," Russian úgol, genitive uglá, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian ȕgao, ȕgla, Armenian ankiwn, and perhaps Germanic *ankula-, *ankila- {see: |ankle|ankle};

[Idiomatic phrase]  | "get tough on" 

1: to deal harshly with

Origin: 1945 ;

[Verb]  | "get on" 

[Verb]  | "get on (to)" 

[Verb]  | "get off (on)" 

[Phrase]  | "get on one's nerves" 

[Phrase]  | "get a move on" 

[Phrase]  | "getting it on" 

[Noun]  | "angle"