set to
UK— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
(WORK)
to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way:
If we all set to, we should be able to finish the job in a week.
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Work, working and the workplace
- a long way to go idiom
- act as sth 1
- act as sth
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- cabin
- grind
- hold down a job idiom
- hoop
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- labour
- slog
- slouch
- spadework
- sweat
- sweat over sth
- swing into action idiom
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Starting and beginning
(FIGHT)
informal to begin to fight
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- combat
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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