swing into gear

To begin doing something at a higher speed, intensity, or level of enthusiasm. The city is swinging into gear in its preparations for the anniversary parade. I'm going to meet with my team on Saturday so we can swing into gear on this project.

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A pre-match thunderstorm left a lot of surface water on the pitch and the contest took some time to swing into gear.

Seagulls in a flap but quality tells as Vale bow out

Another Sellers venture is about to swing into gear with the launch of a brand new band called what else but, Mighty Oaks.

Growing into the future; Brass

A massive 6 million pounds policing operation will swing into gear during

Crowds to throng streets for carnival

Not only was Tinker AFB suffering from its own weather woes, an AWACS bird wasn't ready to swing into gear.

The best of intentions: we were one mile inside the IAF and established on the approach when ATC reported the ceiling had fallen below mins

When one of us is not clicking, invariably the other two swing into gear.

THAI RACK; Football jibes fire the Scots

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