programme

get with the program

To conform or fall in line with what is expected. No one leaves their dirty laundry in the hallway—get with the program! If you don't get with the program soon, you're going to be off the team.
See also: get
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

get with the ˈprogramme

(informal) (usually in orders) used to tell somebody that they should change their attitude and do what they are supposed to be doing: Frank, we have work to do, remember? Get with the programme. You’re through if you don’t get with the program.
See also: get, programme
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

get with the program

in. follow the rules; do what you are supposed to do. Jane just can’t seem to get with the program. She has to do everything her way, right or wrong.
See also: get
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

get with the program

To follow or conform to a set of guidelines or expectations.
See also: get
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • get with the program
  • get with the programme
  • double feature
  • double bill
  • sixty-four-dollar question
  • $64 question
  • 64
  • random number
  • Dreamer
  • do better to do something
References in periodicals archive
With roots in the 19th century, these empowerment programmes gained new life in the mid-1980s, according to Shayne Schneider, President of Mentors Unlimited.
Schneider attributes the impetus to several converging factors, which include: the business community's need to develop the workforce; donors' and volunteers' sense of social responsibility; a mood in society that began to favour individual efforts over government programmes as a response to social problems; a growing desire among successful professionals for more meaningful interaction in their lives; and a lessening of racial tension and fear, which enabled multiculrural programmes to take hold.
With a blossoming of programmes, Schneider has seen the movement become more `sophisticated and realistic'.
Today organizations, such as The National Mentoring Partnership (www.mentoring.org), are collecting information on `best practices', rather than simply focussing on how to get more people into programmes. One element of Schneider's consulting work is to `move the direction of thinking toward viewing mentoring as a way to build on the protege's innate strengths and gifts, rather than to prevent disasters from befalling "at-risk" youth'.
Evidence that mentoring programmes can positively affect young people is now available from the national nonprofit organization Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) (www.ppv.org).
While Big Brothers Big Sisters and other mentoring programmes throughout the country are helping to support and nurture thousands of children and teens, the need for additional opportunities, such as job training and employment, remains great.
Preventive medicine of one-to-one: Karen Elliott Greisdorf examines the role of mentoring in youth and job-training programmes in the USA