start for

start for (some place)

To set off on a journey to some place. We'll need to start for the summit as soon as the sun rises if we hope to make it back down before dark. Make sure you have all your preparations ready tonight—we start for Europe in the morning.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

start for

some place to begin a journey to some place. When shall we start for Springfield? We will start for Detroit before dawn.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • start for (some place)
  • start off from some place
  • start off
  • launch forth
  • set off on
  • set off on (something)
  • road trip
  • roadtrip
  • strike out for
  • strike out for (something or some place)
References in classic literature
If they say, 'Charley, come, let us start for hell,' I will harness the dogs, and snap the whip, and start for hell.
So it's Ahmad Shahzad and Fakhar Zaman to open for Pakistan, whereas Suranga Lakmal will start for Sri Lanka.
You can hold the RUN-OFF-START switch to START for up to two minutes for the Stewart-Warner and no longer than four minutes for the Hupp.
After holding the switch on START for just 10 seconds, the heater automatically goes into a 4-minute purge mode.
Thunder Bay's first single-detached start for the year was registered in March.
The initial molding of the young mind creates a powerful start for learning and critical thinking.
The much bigger concern is what to do about the 4 million poverty level kids who can't get in the door of Head Start for lack of funding and the 5 million additional children whose families are over the poverty line but still eligible for subsidized care under HHS guidelines.
Chicago's Ounce of Prevention Fund recently completed a 24,000-square-foot state-of-the-art center for children aged zero to three by tapping the Chicago Board of Education for land and money, Head Start and Early Head Start for additional funding, and the Chicago construction industry for in-kind donations.
In the South, many white school administrators refused to open their facilities to Head Start for the summer, and organizers ended up running most programs out of black churches.