get busy

idiom

: to start doing work
We need to finish by 5 o'clock, so we'd better get busy.

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Remixers, get busy on this one. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025 Well, if that's the case, then the Warriors will have to get busy, because outside of their core guys, their current roster is pretty bare. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 Both the Trump administration and the Congress need to get busy fighting global hunger. William Lambers, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025 But hurricane forecasters are warning things could get busy come August. Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for get busy

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“Get busy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20busy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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