Progress skilfully and make friends with people (3,2,4)

I believe the answer is:

get on well

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'progress' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'skilfully and make friends with people' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'skilfully' could be 'well' (I've seen this before) and 'well' is present in the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is present in the answer.
'make' could be 'get' (synonyms) and 'get' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'o' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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