swing into action
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: to quickly start doing something
They have to be ready to swing into action at a moment's notice.
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The new year kicks off with the national tour of a classic Broadway musical and a rare local appearance by an iconic comedian before the big three of the Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City Ballet and Lyric Opera of Kansas City swing into action.
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Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
As the weather warms, these caretakers swing into action.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
At the end of the month Hong Kong International Film Festival will swing into action.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
But the microglia cells are hypervigilant and swing into action at the first sign of trouble.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
These cells, which have been found in macaques and birds, swing into action when an animal sees another individual doing something.
—Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
There was some thought the NBA might try to take the draft pick away from Dallas or reduce its ping-pong ball chances, but, realistically, that would have just been asking for Cuban’s lawyers to swing into action.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2023
When their art-collector father André (Dussollier) suffers a debilitating stroke, novelist Emmanuèle (Marceau) and her sister Pascale (Géraldine Pailhas) swing into action as attentive carers at the hospital.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
If farmers still don’t agree to stop logging or planting avocados, that’s when Cheran’s forestry patrols swing into action.
—Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
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Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
As the weather warms, these caretakers swing into action.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
At the end of the month Hong Kong International Film Festival will swing into action.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
But the microglia cells are hypervigilant and swing into action at the first sign of trouble.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
These cells, which have been found in macaques and birds, swing into action when an animal sees another individual doing something.
—Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
There was some thought the NBA might try to take the draft pick away from Dallas or reduce its ping-pong ball chances, but, realistically, that would have just been asking for Cuban’s lawyers to swing into action.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2023
When their art-collector father André (Dussollier) suffers a debilitating stroke, novelist Emmanuèle (Marceau) and her sister Pascale (Géraldine Pailhas) swing into action as attentive carers at the hospital.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
If farmers still don’t agree to stop logging or planting avocados, that’s when Cheran’s forestry patrols swing into action.
—Mark Stevenson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
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“Swing into action.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swing%20into%20action. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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