Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Get going   /gɛt gˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
Get going

verb
1.
Begin or set in motion.  Synonyms: go, start.  "Ready, set, go!"
2.
Start to be active.  Synonyms: bestir oneself, get cracking, get moving, get rolling, get started, get weaving.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Get going" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was perhaps more appreciative than I was of the discipline of the Edison Construction Department, and thought it would be well for us to wait until the morning of the fourth before we started up. I said we were sent over to get going, and insisted on starting up on the night of the third. We had an Armington & Sims engine with sight-feed oiler. I had never seen one, and did not know how it worked, with the result that we soon burned up the babbitt metal in the bearings ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... like this when we got on the train," Dodd said in a low voice. "Let's get going. I'm anxious to get ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine


Words linked to "Get going" :   start out, get down, commence, get off the ground, come up, go on, stop, set about, take off, begin, set out, get, come on


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org