get off the ground

1. 1.

   get started or set in motion, used figuratively

   “the project took a long time to get off the ground”

   Synonymstake off

   Broaderstart

Questions about get off the ground

What does get off the ground mean?

get off the ground means "get started or set in motion, used figuratively".

What is another word for get off the ground?

Close synonyms include take off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get off the ground a common word?

get off the ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.