Definition of Get going
1. Verb. Begin or set in motion. "Ready, set, go!"
Specialized synonyms: Come On, Come Up, Go On, Get Off The Ground, Take Off
Antonyms: Stop
2. Verb. Start to be active. "Get cracking, please!"
Generic synonyms: Begin, Commence, Get, Get Down, Set About, Set Out, Start, Start Out
Definition of Get going
1. Verb. To leave, or depart. ¹
2. Verb. To begin or commence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Get going
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1. What Every American Should Know about the War: A Series of Studies by the edited by Montaville Flowers (1918)
"Our method of manufacture is so different from the European that when we get
going we go fast. We got our men pretty well trained, and ready for the ..."
2. With Walt Whitman in Camden by Horace Traubel (1908)
""Maybe I don't— maybe I'm slow to get going, but it's not impossible." He settled
himself comfortably in his chair, put on his glasses (which he had taken ..."
3. Claudine the Circus Woman by Timothy J. Quinlan (2000)
"Man, I hate it when people won't just get going but have to ask "why?" It is so
aggravating. "I don't know. He just. . .." It was too late. ..."
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