to get on
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4.4
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ɑn/
:
salir en
- She finally got on the talk show to discuss her book.
- get on TV
- get on the radio
- get on the air
How do they get on TVI don't know.
- How do they get on TVI don't know.
- We'll celebrate that when he gets on the podcast.
- I said, how do I get, how do I get on a television show or a movie?
- He goes, let's get Ben Carson on here.
- You were around a little bit and then RWJ, if you got on that show, that was the holy boom.
- And one of the ads that we used to get on the podcast was sports betting.
Examples
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A few weeks ago, the president got on TV with a bag of crack cocaine.
Fiction book (1999) -
I said, how do I get, how do I get on a television show or a movie?
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Like, you know, the more you can get on TV, the better.
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This is my only route to ever get on TV.
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Are you going to get on the show then or what?
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Yes, which was crazy back then to get on mainstream TV.
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You got on Fox, you got on CNN, great publicity show.
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We are going to try to get on as many programs as Secretary Reich can get us on.
Academic text (1996) -
And I vowed I would get on the radio one way or another.
Blog text (27) -
I mean, if we get on the telly in America, it's fantastic publicity.
Synonyms
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1.0
To appear on television or radio
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2.1
Begin to appear or become visible
How Prominent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to board' is directly compositional from 'get' (to move/arrive/enter) plus the locative/onto sense of 'on', so a learner who knows both words can infer entering or boarding a vehicle. This verb+particle pattern is frequent in English and has clear parallels in other languages, making it readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Get on (to appear in a television or radio show) comes from the image of stepping onto a stage or into a studio to be seen or heard. If you get on a show, you are in it, so it means 'to appear on' a program.