Meaning of off and running | Babel Free

Definitions

Launched or launching vigorously into a course of action.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“But both newspapers made the same point. . . . And so the story was off and running.”

“The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy "California Dreamin'," is off and running.”

“[T]he recovery seems to have entered a new stage in recent months. “We’re finally off and running,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.”

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