Definition of Get moving

1. Verb. Start to be active. "Get cracking, please!"


Definition of Get moving

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To start hurrying to undertake a task. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Moving

get into one's stride
get into the act
get into trouble
get it
get it over with
get it up
get knotted
get life
get lost
get married
get moving (current term)
get off lightly
get off of one's cloud
get off on
get off on the wrong foot
get off one's chest
get off one's high horse
get off someone's back
get off the ground
get off with
get on
get on like a house on fire
get on somebody's case

Literary usage of Get moving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cooking With the Baker Street Bunchby M. W. Paulson by M. W. Paulson (2006)
""Then we had better get moving," Whitney said. "We have a mystery to solve." For the next two hours the Baker Street Bunch rode from hotel to motel, ..."

2. Technology Your Fingertips: A Guide to Implementing Technology Solutions for by Gerald Malitz (1999)
"Our folks are anxious to get moving as * well." "We had a great technology committee meeting last week to pull together the information from the needs ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"A number of mining companies run night schools for their employees, and while the larger mining companies can afford to get moving pictures, the small ones ..."

4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"They were frightfully keen to get moving. I gathered from my Sergeant their one fear was that if we couldn't soon get going our artillery would have left no ..."

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