Get on
Get on verb - To meet one's day-to-day needs.
Usage example: despite his new job's low pay, he was still getting on
Shift
Shift verb - To meet one's day-to-day needs.
Usage example: left the others to shift for themselves
Both terms in one sentence
- The story had a Downer Ending, after working hard to get on the same day with a woman he's fallen in love with after seeing her in her cryo-tube, he finds she has worked equally hard to get onto his old shift... Later expanded into the Dayworld series of novels.
Source: Population Control -
It also experienced a change of hardware platforms multiple times, the first in-game Art Shift ever, and turmoil in the parent company, but managed to get on Steam in the end.
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Shift and Get on. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/get_on/shift
Get on & Shift. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/get_on/shift>.
Shift or Get on. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/get_on/shift.
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