Verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get on, to.
(UK) To contact (someone) in order to raise or discuss a certain matter.
That pipe is leaking again. I'll get on to the plumber in the morning.
To progress to; to start working on.
I haven't got time to work on this report today; I'll get on to it tomorrow.
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. Clive Barker
What I've got to talk about, I don't think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer. Charles de Lint
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes. Christopher Moore (author)
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. Scott McCloud
I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. Joseph Fiennes
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. N.T. Wright