"go along to get along" meaning in English

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      "form": "going along to get along",
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      "form": "went along to get along",
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      "form": "gone along to get along",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight, page 55",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 February 22, Andrew Finkel, Frank Pellegrini, “Can Turkey Be Plucked From Its Financial Meltdown?”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2011 May 18, Brett Arends, “Strauss-Kahn? Here’s the real IMF scandal”, in Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, retrieved 2011-06-07",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 4, Emily VanDerWerff, “Mad Men: Commissions And Fees”, in AV Club, retrieved 2013-09-27",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To conform in order to have acceptance and security."
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          "security",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To conform in order to have acceptance and security."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fake it till one makes it"
        },
        {
          "word": "move out to move up"
        }
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      "form": "went along to get along",
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      "form": "gone along to get along",
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          "ref": "1989, Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight, page 55",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 February 22, Andrew Finkel, Frank Pellegrini, “Can Turkey Be Plucked From Its Financial Meltdown?”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 18, Brett Arends, “Strauss-Kahn? Here’s the real IMF scandal”, in Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, retrieved 2011-06-07",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2012 June 4, Emily VanDerWerff, “Mad Men: Commissions And Fees”, in AV Club, retrieved 2013-09-27",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(idiomatic) To conform in order to have acceptance and security."
      ],
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