get cracking

get cracking
get cracking
Rur. to get to work. •

If you want to finish that quilt by Labor Day, you best get cracking.

Sit down to your homework and get cracking!

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{v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} To hurry up, to start moving fast. (Used mostly as an imperative). * /Come on, you guys, let's get cracking!/ (Let's hurry up!) Compare: GET GOING 2.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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