(...)and anyone who doesn't like it can get on with it.

[Krybro]

Eccentrics have thrown off the constraints of normal life to let themselves do exactly as they please - and anyone who doesn't like it can get on with it. (This is a sentence from my exercises)


What is the meaning of the phrase in bold? "get on with" surely means "continue", and the phrase "get on with it!" = "hurry up!". Yet, neither of these meanings seem to fit in the sentence provided, in my opinion. Thanks

 

[Copyright]

I imagine it means "can keep living their lives and not bother with (ignore) the person," although I've never heard it and, now that I have, would never use it.

 

[DonnyB]

It's a colloquial, almost slang expression which means something like 'accept the reality of the situation and stop complaining about it'.

 

[ain'ttranslationfun?]

The meaning is "...and if anybody doesn't like it, tough/too bad.", "if anybody doesn't like it, that's their problem." More vulgar: "..., they know what they can do.", euphemism undertood as "they can go shit in their hat" & other expressions which some (many?) would find offensive.