get rolling

get rolling
verb
start to be active
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Get cracking, please!

Hypernyms:
get down, ↑begin, ↑get, ↑start out, ↑start, ↑set about, ↑set out, ↑commence
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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get rolling — see roll, 1
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Main Entry:get
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get rolling
informal
1 : to leave

We ought to get rolling if we don't want to be late.

2 : to start doing something

You should get rolling on that assignment.

The project finally got rolling. [=got started]

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Main Entry:roll

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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