To hit it off (with someone) = be form an immediate and positive connection; to be naturally friendly or well suited
e.g. I was concerned when I heard that I was getting a new boss. When we discussed her plans for our department, I liked her ideas and she seemed lovely; we hit it off at once.
This idiom was used with the same meaning in the 1600s as “to hit it”, “off” being added later (in the mid-1800s). “To hit” has for a long time also had the meaning “to succeed” - probably where the term “a hit” to describe a popular piece of music or book, for example, came from. To “hit it off” seems to be an elaboration of the same meaning: “How do you and the great Mrs. Montague hit it off,” wrote the diarist Madame d’Arblay in 1780. Modern usage (about a relationship started on a reality TV show, Australian Big Brother): “The couple controversially hit it off in 2014, when Lawson was believed to have cheated on his long term girlfriend Candice Leeder to hook up with the blonde midwife” - The Daily Mail newspaper.
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