get to work

idiom

: to start working
We need to stop delaying and get to work.

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So do the nearly 2,000 people who use the pedestrian bridge every day to get to work, baseball games, restaurants and much more. Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2025 After shopping at Mood, the designers get to work. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025 Our time together can be pretty short and snatched, and usually ends with one of us hopping in the car at 6am to get to work on time. Lucy Thorpe, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025 While Tranter tinkers and Zuzana monitors the wall of local surveillance footage, Karalis and his team get to work drilling through the wall of the vault. Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for get to work

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“Get to work.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20to%20work. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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