get ahead
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
to be successful in the work that you do:
It's tough for a woman to get ahead in politics.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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