get going

Definitions

1. 1

   To leave, to depart, to get moving.

   • It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset.
2. 2

   To begin or commence.

   • We'd better get this project going. If we don't get going on it soon, we won't finish in time.
   • We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
3. 3

   To excite intellectually.

   • She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end.
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   1. 4

      To arouse sexually.

      • During the preliminaries I, as usual, "got her going" by irritation of the clitoris, among other things.
      • "You fascinate me, Rita. In vulgar terms, you've got me going. I would love to make a doting fool of myself over you. Rhapsodize over you in a highfalutin' key of lyrical ardour."
      • Besides, it's always seemed necessary to get him going. Now, tonight, it's more out of habit, because when I get a paw past his pants, he's already rock hard and it's clear that he got himself going without my help.
   2. 5

      To talk passionately without interruption.

      • Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said.
      • Mo was doing most of the talking and even though he's a good guy, once he gets going about Betty you can forget it for the rest of the night.
      • “He's always got a story and when he gets going, you aren't going to bring him back for a while.”
   3. 6

      To cause someone to talk passionately without interruption.

      • I got him going about the moon or stars, he would fall into that trap, he forgot about his questions and for hours talked to me about the universe.
      • Then she'll start in about seeing all these robins we've been having lately, and next thing vou know she's quoting 'ere a sparrow that tails and that gets her going about that king turning into a bird in Daniel.
      • The visit to La Devinière got her going about her great childhood deprivation
   4. 7

      To cry or bawl loudly.

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