to get moving
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1.6
- phrasal verb
- Informal
- We need to get moving if we want to catch the bus.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd then when you've decided where the train is heading, get moving and get on board.
- And then when you've decided where the train is heading, get moving and get on board.
- And so we pick ourselves up, square ourselves off and get moving again.
- How can you make this fun and how can you just get moving?
- We're OK ish now, but we got to get moving.
- And once you have the, the work that makes you get moving and get going and making, making things happen.
- And with that context, the organization got moving and achieved what I have explained to you.
- It did take a bit to get into the, the, the first book I, I found going back to the dying Earth itself took a little bit to, to get moving with it.
- I I better get moving along.
- So in the case of Descartes, the Enlightenment is just kind of getting moving.
- I've got a friend who's just said, listen, at your age, you know, to get back in shape, just get movement, just get moving, you know?
Examples
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Now put on your coat and get moving, sonny boy.
Fiction book (1999) -
We gotta get moving before dawn.
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The other captain wants to get moving.
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Okay, time to get moving.
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So I suggest you get moving.
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- We should get moving.
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Can we get moving before we have to do it all in the dark?
Fiction book (1994) -
We got to get moving: I got to get up there.
Fiction book (1997) -
We've got to get moving.
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You'd better get moving.
Synonyms
774
1.8
To begin doing something, for example a task or meeting
598
2.3
To start doing something or to leave
159
3.2
To start doing something yourself after waiting or thinking
44
3.5
To start moving or begin working on something
37
3.4
Hurry and start moving faster
13
5.8
Start working quickly and with energy
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9.7
To start working hard without delay
1
7.7
To get out of bed and start the day with energy
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7.7
To start doing something quickly
To make an effort to become active after doing nothing
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to start being active / hurry up' is directly built from 'get' (cause or induce) plus 'moving' (in motion): together they mean 'cause to begin moving' or 'begin moving', which is a common, compositional pattern in English (get + -ing). This construction is cross-linguistically familiar and predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituent words, so the meaning is immediately derivable.
Etymology
The phrasal verb get moving shows the simple image of someone who gets up and is moving, like rising and starting to walk or work. So it now means 'to start being active' or 'to hurry up'.