Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - get on to

1. If you get on to a topic when you are speaking, you start talking about it. We got on to the subject of relationships. PHRASAL VERB: V P P n 2. If you get on to someone, you contact them in order to ask them to do something or to give them some information. (mainly BRIT) I got on to him and explained some of the things I had been thinking of. PHRASAL VERB: V P P n