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get with the program

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get with the program
Fig. follow the rules; do what you are supposed to do. (Implies that there is a clearly known method or "program" that is usually followed.) Come on, Mark. Get with the program. Do what you are told. Jane just can't seem to get with the program. She has to do everything her way, right or wrong.
See also: get

get with the program  (American informal)
to accept new ideas and give more attention to what is happening now They've been playing the same old music for ten years or so - it's time to get with the program.
See also: get

get with the program
to make more effort to do what is needed now There is increasing pressure on the Senate to get with the program and pass the tax-cut bill. We're all ready to go - come on, Dad, get with the program.
See also: get


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