get onto

Verb

get onto (third-person singular simple present gets onto, present participle getting onto, simple past got onto, past participle (UK) got onto or (US, Australia) gotten onto)

1. To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.
   • You should get onto the manufacturers and complain.
2. To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.
   • With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster.

   Synonyms:

   log on

3. (transitive) To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone.
   • My father got onto me for taking the car without asking.

   Synonyms:

   reprimand, scold

4. (ditransitive, informal) To introduce someone to something.
   • My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks.
5. (informal) To take a look at someone or something.
   • Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together.
   • “Get onto the bloke with the face fringe.”1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90
6. (informal, slang, transitive) To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.
   • The child will get onto the merry-go-round.
   • That cat's on the house again. How does it get onto the roof?

   Synonyms:

   board