fall to
literary— phrasal verb with fall uk/fɔːl/us/fɑːl/verb fell, fallen
to begin doing something energetically:
There was a lot of work to do, so they fell to immediately.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick in
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
See more results »