off and running

1. Making a good start, progressing well, as in After the first episode the new soap opera was off and running. Originating in horse racing, as the traditional announcement at the beginning of a race (“They're off and running”), this phrase began to be used more broadly in the second half of the 1900s.

Example Sentences

The “SNL” veterans were quickly off and running.

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“We’re off and running with value creation.”

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Lauper got into acting in the late ’80s when her music career temporarily cooled; little-seen films like “Vibes” and “Off and Running” didn’t exactly turn her into a movie star, though she met her husband, actor David Thornton, on the set of the latter.

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And Dustin was so supportive and so helpful, and I learned a lot from him, and so we were off and running.

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But after that I was off and running — finished the song within the hour, and for the first time in my life, I was looking at the page and I said, “My God, I’ve written a classic.”

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