Meaning of flying start | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An especially good start.
   idiomatic
2. The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point.

Equivalents

Examples

“The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night.”

“He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for a flying start on the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.”

“And six minutes in they should have got off to a flying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.”

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