get busy

idiom

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

Examples of get busy in a Sentence

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“Get busy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20busy. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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