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get under way

To proceed or begin to progress; to start. OK, everyone, let's get under way—you have an hour to complete the exam. I'm sure you can ask your question once the lecture gets under way.

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Work has just gotten underway on the biggest thing to happen in Fort Lee since the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931.

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"We've just gotten underway here at the Mayflower here in Washington," he tells Schultz, in a crowd of some four dozen think tank scholars, graduate students, interns, and journalists.

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That means the moaning about the sport's economic disparity has likewise gotten underway. Don't you know that big-market teams such as the Yankees (winners of the last three World Series) have a far greater revenue base than teams such as the Reds?