get busy

Idioms & Phrases

get busy

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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