get down to business

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to begin seriously doing what you need to do. They both knew they did not have much time, so they got down to business and began to discuss the issues that needed to be settled.

Usage notes: sometimes used without get: Our professor is very down to business and very well prepared.

Related vocabulary: get down to it

See also: business, down

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He investigated and appropriated the feathered headdress, and then he prepared to get down to business, for Tarzan of the Apes was hungry, and here was meat; meat of the kill, which jungle ethics permitted him to eat. Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context More results

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