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单词 to get to work
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to 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.
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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.’
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