go along to get along
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To conform in order to have acceptance and security.
Example Sentences
- "He also had a talent for the truth. He would tell it, regardless, a gift that did him little political good in the Army, where you had to go along to get along."
- "Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer."
- "Nobody wanted to speak out of turn. Nobody wanted to go against the prevailing wisdom. Everyone wanted to go along to get along. That’s how you got promoted in the IMF."
- "Don invented a myth of himself, then made it a reality, and he had the stupidity—or the intelligence—to never stop believing in the myth. Lane Pryce, a go-along-to-get-along guy if ever there was one, doesn’t have that myth. All he has is the ability to give and give and give until there’s nothing more to take."