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Meaning of off and running | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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