go along to get along

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toconformin order to haveacceptanceandsecurity.1989,Stephen Hunter,The Day Before Midnight‎[1],→ISBN, page55:He also had a talent for the truth. He would tell it, regardless, a gift that did him little political good in the Army, where you had togo along to get along.2001February 22, Andrew Finkel, Frank Pellegrini, “Can Turkey Be Plucked From Its Financial Meltdown?”, inTime:Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who wouldgo along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer.2011May 18,Brett Arends, “Strauss-Kahn? Here’s the real IMF scandal”, inWall Street Journal MarketWatch, retrieved7 June 2011:Nobody wanted to speak out of turn. Nobody wanted to go against the prevailing wisdom. Everyone wanted togo along to get along. That’s how you got promoted in the IMF.2012June 4,Emily VanDerWerff, “Mad Men: Commissions And Fees”, inAV Club, retrieved27 September 2013:Don invented a myth of himself, then made it a reality, and he had the stupidity—or the intelligence—to never stop believing in the myth. Lane Pryce, ago-along-to-get-alongguy if ever there was one, doesn’t have that myth. All he has is the ability to give and give and give until there’s nothing more to take.

Examples:

EN: You got to go along to get along, you know what I mean?
ES: Uno debe seguir adelante para llevarlo bien, ¿entiende?
EN: It's very generous and noble but when are gonna learn that you've gotta go along to get along?
ES: Es muy generoso y noble pero ¿cuándo vas a aprender a aceptarlo como es?
EN: Sometimes you have to go along to get along.
ES: A veces tienes que hacer lo posible para llevarte bien.
EN: You got to go along to get along, Jim.
ES: Tienes que aceptarlo para continuar, Jim.
EN: You go along to get along.
ES: Sigues adelante para salir adelante.
EN: So what's really interesting about these groups is that, in times of social stability, people go along to get along with them because they control resources.
ES: Lo que es realmente interesante de estos grupos es que, en tiempos de estabilidad social, las personas tienden a llevarse bien con ellos porque controlan los recursos.
EN: So, "go along to get along."
ES: O sea, concede para llevarte bien.
EN: - So go along to get along?
ES: - ¿Así que hace lo posible para llevarlo bien?
EN: Yeah, I'd split these two up, but we got a sewage backup in number three, and number four won't lock, so y'all gon' have to go along to get along, you hear me?
ES: Sí, bueno las separaría a las dos, pero tenemos aguas residuales en la número tres y la cuatro no cierra, así que todas tendrán que aprender a llevarse bien.
EN: Scared of speaking up because it was easy to go along to get along.
ES: Temía hablar porque era más fácil seguir la corriente.
EN: So, we just go along to get along.
ES: Así que vamos a llevarnos bien.
EN: The rest of us just have to go along to get along.
ES: El resto de nosotros solo tenemos que seguir para llevarnos bien.
EN: And sometimes you just go along to get along.
ES: Y a veces sólo puedes seguirle la corriente.
EN: I can't go along to get along with people like that.
ES: No puedo aceptar llevarme bien con gente así.
EN: Well, you said it yourself -- even at Quantico, you didn't go along to get along.
ES: Bueno, usted mismo lo dijo, incluso en Quantico, no fuiste para llevarte bien.

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