get cracking

It was a street-sweep, and violence had broken out, and the government was cracking down.

His foot caught; it is unknown in what,—in a twisted tie, or perhaps in a crevice of the cracking earth.

The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.

Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.

It was in this room that Delancy's get-away car had changed paint jobs, and in about ten minutes.

But the exquisite was used to it; he would only have felt badly if they had ignored his new get-up.