单词 | to get to work |
释义 | > as lemmasto get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to work (b) to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to work: to proceed to some action (expressed or implied); to begin doing something, esp. in a purposeful or energetic manner; to commence operations. See also to fall to work at fall v. Phrases 1c(a). Cf. to get down to business at business n. Phrases 13. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 onginOE aginOE ginc1175 to go tillc1175 to take onc1175 comsea1225 fanga1225 to go toc1275 i-ginc1275 commencec1320 to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400 to lay to one's hand(sc1405 to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410 to set toc1425 standa1450 to make to1563 to fall to it1570 to start out1574 to fall to1577 to run upon ——1581 to break off1591 start1607 to set in1608 to set to one's hands1611 to put toa1616 to fall ona1625 in1633 to fall aboard1642 auspicatea1670 to set out1693 to enter (into) the fray1698 open1708 to start in1737 inchoate1767 to set off1774 go1780 start1785 to on with1843 to kick off1857 to start in on1859 to steam up1860 to push off1909 to cut loose1923 to get (also put) the show on the road1941 to get one's arse in gear1948 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vii. l. 181 To werke we ȝeden. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1594/2 Say your mind, and goe briefly to worke. For I thinke it almost diner. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. O7 Swearing he neuer knew man go more aukewardly to worke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. i. 33 Ile go another way to worke with him: Ile haue an action of Battery against him. View more context for this quotation 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art iii. 120 Having provided these, you shall set to worke, observing the subsequent directions. 1672 T. Shadwell Miser ii. 17 How did you go to work to Suiter my Mother? 1681 R. Griffith A-la-mode Phlebotomy No Good Fashion 11 Then he goes a down right way to work, and finds fault with every kind of thing..that has been made use of, before his coming. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 158 I set to Work a Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 363 This parliament..went expeditiously to work upon the business of reformation. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 353 I..set to work at another two-act piece. 1888 House Painting & Decorating Dec. 79/2 When he finally got down to work, the manner in which he could handle the bunch of bristles rather astonished the boys. 1890 Temple Bar July 329 His wits went instantly to work. 1906 Watson's Mag. Nov. 70/1 I set down to work that afternoon to study my ‘Brain Surgery’. 1940 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 13 May 5/2 The authorities went to work yesterday to clean up Amsterdam with a vengeance. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 99/1 (advt.) Golden Vigoro..goes to work immediately. Clean and odorless! 2010 ‘M. Caine’ Elephant to Hollywood v. 67 ‘OK,’ he said, ‘let's get to work.’ < as lemmas |
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