get started on
get started on (something)
1. To begin doing some task It's already 6:00, so I better get started on dinner. Have you even gotten started on your homework?
2. To cause someone to start enthusiastically discussing some topic. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "get" and "started." Don't get Grandpa started on the weather unless you want to hear about the "Farmers' Almanac" all night. All right, who got Uncle Fred started on tax reform?
See also: get, on, start
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
get started on something
to begin doing something; to take the first steps to do something. When do we get started on this project? I want to get started on this right away.
See also: get, on, start
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- get started on (something)
- start up with
- start up with (someone or something)
- scab
- get scabbed
- scabbed
- not have all (one's) marbles
- not have all marbles
- peel off from (someone or something)
- start off as