swing into action

To begin some activity with great enthusiasm, intensity, and speed. The boss swung into action as soon as he learned there was a dispute between the two departments. I'm going to meet with my group on Saturday so we can swing into action on this project.

swing into action

Energetically start doing something, as in Come on, let's swing into action before the others arrive. This idiom uses swing in the sense of "move vigorously."

ˌswing into ˈaction

start to act efficiently and quickly: When the police heard about the bomb, they swung into action, searching the area with dogs and moving the public to safety.

See also: action, swing

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LAHORE -- The second edition of the National Women 7s Rugby Championship will swing into action here from Tomorrow , Saturday at Pakistan Rugby Academy .

National women Rugby championship starts

The United Nations should swing into action to protect these unfortunate people.

Action against Myanmar

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THE MAIL ONLINE

THE last eight heats of the first round of the Red Mills Produce Stakes will be run at Clonmel tonight and many of the leading fancies swing into action.

Hawk set to fly

Swing into action at Sofia Live Club with Sentimental Swingers--Roni of Nasekomix, Desy of Phuture Shock and Vera--and the Mihail Yossifov sextet, with a special appearance by Emanuil Manolov, aka Badema (the almond).

Swing in winter

Airlines were told to drastically cut back their flights into the country as the next round of protests over plans to raise the retirement age swing into action.

FRANCE RUNNING OUT OF FUEL AS STRIKES CRIPPLE COUNTRY

Flats facelift but two blocks to go" (Examiner August 12) The day the wrecking balls swing into action can't come fast enough.

Too soon to judge? Mailbag letters also appear online at www.examiner.co.uk/views-and-blogs/reader-letters Mailbag

Luckily, an ACP patrolling the area came to know of the incident and asked his men to swing into action," a police officer said.

Man held for robbing driver of car in city

The cops swing into action when the body of private investigator Andrew MacHenry is found at the bottom of a cliff.

Thursday: PICK OF THE DAY

It's great to see a car-maker swing into action with quite such dispatch.

AT YOUR SERVICE

The Calgary Aboriginal Friendship Centre will be teeing off this spring with a new youth golf program for 30 Aboriginal girls called Swing into Action.

Program allows girls to swing into action

Community Challenge is about to swing into action after the announcement of our first winner.

Scouts' honour

The Government's Child Trust Funds swing into action today and who receive child benefit will receive a pounds 250 ``babybond'' from the Government.

Baby bond accounts up and running

During President Bush's second inauguration, "a small group of super-secret commandos stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action to protect the presidency in ways that have never been fully revealed before," noted the January 23 New York Times.

Building the military-intelligence complex

The Anglesey Aluminum trophy will be on offer when six challengers swing into action at Cemaes Bay's School Lane ground in a series of games between July 26 and August 4.