get ahead

— Phrasal Verb with get get ahead: listen to British English pronunciation

/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)

worried or nervous about something that is going to happen

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