get busy
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In Mansfield: “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, where Tim Robbins’s character tells the inmate played by Morgan Freeman: “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
That said, life can get busy, and sometimes I need to get dinner on the table quickly.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025
Whoever’s charge with doing that work will have to get busy.
From BBC • May 25, 2024
When the temperatures are right, with tools in hand, you’ll be ready to get busy in the garden.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024
I spin around and get busy opening three boxes of rigatoni and cheese.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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