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get started or set in motion, used figuratively
the project took a long time to get off the ground
How To Use get off the ground In A Sentence
- Moreover, do you have the money and the business know-how to get off the ground?
- A few low-flying cruise missiles could wipe out an airfield before the mighty jets get off the ground.
- The aircraft hadn't enough power to get off the ground.
- As reported in Franks passim, the Dullard show is like a wounded albatross trying to get off the ground.
- The aircraft hadn't enough power to get off the ground.
- Croydon has become home to the first in a series of innovation centres to help fledgling businesses get off the ground.
- New bank competitors have struggled to get off the ground, not helped by the caution of regulators. Times, Sunday Times
- Planes, as you may already know, have big wings because they need a lot of lift to get off the ground and start flying around and suchlike, which is mostly what planes do, although sometimes they just sit on the taxiway getting de-iced and making people impatient. Ekranoplan: world’s strangest airplane « raincoaster
- But ambitious plans to transform it into an important centre for exhibitions have failed to get off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
- Will a park of this massive magnitude get off the ground?