to be going on with
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]to be going on with (not comparable)
- (UK) For now; provisionally; to begin with.
- It's not much but it'll do to be going on with.
- I can't take on this job right now. I've already got plenty to be going on with.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
- […] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with.