get busy

Idioms and Phrases

Start working, become active, as in Stop dawdling; get busy , or We'd better get busy on this paper . [c. 1900] Also see get a move on ; get going ; get on the stick .

Example Sentences

“We need to get together, roll up our sleeves and get busy learning from each other.”

From Los Angeles Times

“This is the time to really do it. Do it before we start to get busy with all the stuff that comes with the holidays, with the kids going back to school.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Heritage Foundation created Project 2025 so that if Trump returns to the White House next year, the transition has already been thought through and Trump can immediately get busy enacting his agenda.

From Slate

“Time for Red State AGs and DAs to get busy,” Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia wrote on the social platform X, formerly Twitter, after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty.

From Seattle Times

Whoever’s charge with doing that work will have to get busy.

From BBC

Related Words

• come through
• get going