get started on (something)

get started on (something)

1. To begin doing some task It's already 6:00, so I better get started on dinner. Have you even gotten started on your homework? Why do you wait until the last possible second to get started on packing?
2. To cause someone to start enthusiastically discussing some topic. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "get" and "started." Don't get Grandpa started on the weather unless you want to hear about the "Farmers' Almanac" all night. All right, who got Uncle Fred started on tax reform? Do not get anyone started on politics or religion, OK? I just want to have a nice, peaceful dinner party.
See also: get, on, start
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get started on something

to begin doing something; to take the first steps to do something. When do we get started on this project? I want to get started on this right away.
See also: get, on, start
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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