VERB
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start to be active
Get cracking, please! -
begin or set in motion
Ready, set, go!
I start at eight in the morning
How To Use get going In A Sentence
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- She takes ages to get going, and you don't want to make her more snitchy than usual.
- Yet the government plans to quadruple the amount of the aid budget going to CDC. Times, Sunday Times
- Took a while to get going after being winded but exploded in the second half.
- I guess I'd better get going.
- Feeling bored and tired of waiting for the train to get going we play throw and catch with a ball.
- This lets the vehicle idle and then get going easily from a standing start.
- If the players batting behind Sheffield really get going, the opposition will have to challenge him.
- ‘Okay, let's get going now,’ Sterling urged as he went up to the wagoner's seat, ready to take off.
- I have to get going - they're about to send out the campus monitors to enforce lights out.
