get ahead

— Phrasal Verb with get

/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

› to be successful in the work that you do: It's tough for any woman who wants to get ahead in politics.

(Definition of get ahead from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

If two people are thrown together, they meet each other in a way that was not planned, or events...

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