start on sth
— phrasal verb with start uk/stɑːt/us/stɑːrt/verb
to start to deal with something, or to start to use something:
I'm just about to start on the cleaning.
When did your baby start on solid food?
More examples
- I'm about to start on the cooking.
- Have you started on the packing yet?
- I thought we'd have lunch before starting on the cleaning.
- I haven't even started on the painting.
- We'd eaten our main course and were about to start on the dessert.
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
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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