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单词 to get cracking
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to get cracking
b. Colloquial phrase to get cracking: to get started; to ‘get a move on’. Cf. get v. 31a. Also with noun or pronoun (or other object) interposed between get and cracking.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > resolutely or energetically
to go to it1490
busklea1535
settle1576
to lay on1587
to put in (also get into) one's gearsa1658
to put (occasionally lay, set) one's shoulder to the wheel1678
yark1721
to get going1822
to pitch in1835
to roll up one's sleeves1838
square1849
to clap on1850
to wire in (also away)1864
to dig in1884
hunker1903
tie into1904
to get cracking1937
to get stuck in1938
to get weaving1942
to get it on1954
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 324/1 Get cracking, to begin work.
1938 ‘N. Shute’ Ruined City vi. 121 If I could get this yard cracking again I'd be a very happy man.
1943 H. Bolitho Combat Rep. 73 Dickie yawned and said, ‘Well, I must get cracking.’
1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board 190 I got the solicitor cracking on it before I left England.
1949 S. Gibbons Matchmaker xviii. 221 Come on, let's get cracking, we're late now.
1950 A. L. Rowse Eng. of Elizabeth v. 162 Norwich, which still had many void spaces.., is told to get cracking: if owners do not rebuild.. the corporation shall do so.
1957 E. Hyams Into Dream iii. vi. 234 ‘I'd better get cracking.’ ‘Very well. Take care of yourself.’
1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 124/2 Before Dr. Latham can get cracking with his computer, someone at the Mission Control..will flip a switch.
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