"off and running" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the beginning of a footrace or horse race, when competitors rush forth out of the starting blocks or gate.",
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      "expansion": "off and running (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 July 24, Felicity Barringer, “Running on Adrenaline And Ideology at The Post”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "But both newspapers made the same point. . . . And so the story was off and running.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 27, Jessica Au, “When Movies Follow The Storm”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy \"California Dreamin',\" is off and running.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 14, Jay Fitzgerald, “Economic recovery starts gaining steam”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "[T]he recovery seems to have entered a new stage in recent months. “We’re finally off and running,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Launched or launching vigorously into a course of action."
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          "launch"
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        [
          "vigorous",
          "vigorous"
        ],
        [
          "course of action",
          "course of action"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Launched or launching vigorously into a course of action."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "off to the races"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
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  "word": "off and running"
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{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the beginning of a footrace or horse race, when competitors rush forth out of the starting blocks or gate.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "off and running (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "off to the races"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 July 24, Felicity Barringer, “Running on Adrenaline And Ideology at The Post”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "But both newspapers made the same point. . . . And so the story was off and running.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 October 27, Jessica Au, “When Movies Follow The Storm”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy \"California Dreamin',\" is off and running.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 14, Jay Fitzgerald, “Economic recovery starts gaining steam”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2015-04-16:",
          "text": "[T]he recovery seems to have entered a new stage in recent months. “We’re finally off and running,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "vigorous"
        ],
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          "course of action",
          "course of action"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Launched or launching vigorously into a course of action."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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  "word": "off and running"
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