"flying start" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From sailboat races, where the ships should be 'flying' under full sail as they cross the starting line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flying starts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flying start (plural flying starts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record",
          "text": "And six minutes in they should have got off to a flying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An especially good start."
      ],
      "id": "en-flying_start-en-noun-y9sTUAJu",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An especially good start."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "with flying colours"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an especially good start",
          "word": "lentävä lähtö"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "off to a flying start",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an especially good start",
          "word": "sur les chapeaux de roue"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "an especially good start",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bardzo dobry start"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an especially good start",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "rivstart"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point."
      ],
      "id": "en-flying_start-en-noun-GIoS6tDR"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-flying start.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flying start"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sailboat races, where the ships should be 'flying' under full sail as they cross the starting line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flying starts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flying start (plural flying starts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "with flying colours"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record",
          "text": "And six minutes in they should have got off to a flying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An especially good start."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An especially good start."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-flying start.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/En-au-flying_start.ogg/En-au-flying_start.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/En-au-flying_start.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an especially good start",
      "word": "lentävä lähtö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "off to a flying start",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an especially good start",
      "word": "sur les chapeaux de roue"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an especially good start",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bardzo dobry start"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an especially good start",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "rivstart"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flying start"
}