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get rolling
Thesaurus| Verb | 1.get rolling - start to be active; "Get cracking, please!"bestir oneself, get cracking, get moving, get started, get weaving, get goingbegin, commence, set out, start, start out, set about, get down, get - take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" |
get rolling
get (something) rollingTo begin something. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our offices. Let's get the meeting rolling, shall we? You have to leave? But we just got the party rolling!See also: get, rollget rollingTo leave or depart. Let's get rolling. We need to be at the airport by 7:30. There's nothing happening here—let's get rolling.See also: get, rollget rollingFig. to get started. Come on. It's time to leave. Let's get rolling! Bill, it's 6:30. Time to get up and get rolling!See also: get, rollget cracking/rollingBegin, get busy, hurry up. The first of these colloquialisms originated in Great Britain in the 1930s and appears to have crossed the Atlantic during World War II. It uses crack in the sense of “move fast,” a usage dating from the late nineteenth century, and is often put as an imperative, as in “Now get cracking before it starts to rain.” The synonymous get rolling, dating from the first half of the 1900s, alludes to setting wheels in motion. It, too, may be used as an imperative, but is more often heard in such locutions as “Jake said it’s time to get rolling on the contracts.”See also: cracking, get, rollget rolling
Synonyms for get rollingverb start to be activeSynonyms- bestir oneself
- get cracking
- get moving
- get started
- get weaving
- get going
Related Words- begin
- commence
- set out
- start
- start out
- set about
- get down
- get
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