off the ground

1. see get off the ground.

Example Sentences

Those plans never got off the ground and were criticized as unworkable.

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“That plane wouldn’t have made it off the ground with your fatass in the pilot’s seat.”

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The project, which took eight years to get off the ground, will be studied for five years to see how effective it is at protecting the turbine from erosion and how bio-diverse it becomes.

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President Joe Biden’s plan to secure an end to the war in Gaza and leverage that to create progress toward a Palestinian state and an expansion of Arab diplomatic ties with Israel never got off the ground.

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Clark Williams-Derry, an analyst for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said there are still ways Sable could get off the ground and begin oil sales, but the repeated setbacks have become what he called “cumulative risk” for investors, who are key to funding the restart.

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