get cracking

get cracking
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 cracking
To get moving quickly
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Main Entry: ↑crack

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get cracking informal phrase
to start doing something or going somewhere immediately

We’ll have to get cracking if we want to get there before dark.

Thesaurus: to start doing somethingsynonym
Main entry: crack

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informal act quickly and energetically

most tickets have been snapped up, so get cracking if you want one

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get cracking
informal : to start doing something

You ought to get cracking [=get going; get moving] on that assignment. [=you should start working on that assignment right away]

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Main Entry: ↑crack
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get cracking — see ↑crack, 1
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Main Entry: ↑get

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get ˈcracking idiom
(informal) to begin immediately and work quickly

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There's a lot to be done, so let's get cracking.

Main entry: ↑crackidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • get cracking — {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To hurry up, to start moving fast. (Used mostly as an imperative). * /Come on, you guys, let s get cracking!/ (Let s hurry up!) Compare: GET GOING 2 …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • get cracking — {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To hurry up, to start moving fast. (Used mostly as an imperative). * /Come on, you guys, let s get cracking!/ (Let s hurry up!) Compare: GET GOING 2 …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • get cracking — To get cracking means to start working on something, usually a job or task with defined parameters …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • get cracking — ► get cracking informal act quickly and energetically. Main Entry: ↑crack …   English terms dictionary

  • get cracking —    When you get cracking, you start doing something immediately.     I d better get cracking or I ll never get my homework done …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • get cracking — verb To get started; to get busy. If Im going to finish my homework by Thursday, I had better get cracking …   Wiktionary

  • Get cracking! — exclam. Get moving!; Get started!; Hurry up! □ Hurry up! Get cracking! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • get cracking — phrasal to make a start ; get going < ought to get cracking on that assignment > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • get\ cracking — v. phr. slang informal To hurry up, to start moving fast. (Used mostly as an imperative). Come on, you guys, let s get cracking! (Let s hurry up!) Compare: get going(2) …   Словарь американских идиом

  • get cracking — hurry up, start moving fast, get started We will have to get cracking on this work if we want to finish it before dinner …   Idioms and examples

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