out of the gate in English

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{
  "etymology_text": "Analogy from various sports and activities, such as hound racing and bull-riding.",
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      "expansion": "out of the gate",
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  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "If nicknames and partisan battles are inevitable, better to control branding out of the gate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At or from the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting."
      ],
      "id": "en-out_of_the_gate-en-prep_phrase-FEr42lag",
      "links": [
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          "beginning"
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        [
          "outset",
          "outset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) At or from the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "right out of the gate"
        },
        {
          "word": "straight out of the gate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "out of the gate"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Analogy from various sports and activities, such as hound racing and bull-riding.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "out of the gate",
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    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "out of the gate",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 November 12, Matteo Wong, “How Did America End Up With the Z.O.M.B.I.E. Act?”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "If nicknames and partisan battles are inevitable, better to control branding out of the gate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At or from the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beginning",
          "beginning"
        ],
        [
          "outset",
          "outset"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) At or from the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "right out of the gate"
    },
    {
      "word": "straight out of the gate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "out of the gate"
}

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"out of the gate" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase