get busy
verb1
Informal To cease to be idle and start working.
- Stop playing computer games, and get busy with your homework.
- The couple were getting busy in the front room when the doorbell rang.
- Homer and Marge have to try to explain things to children who are too worldly to fall for most excuses, the explanation trails off, and what could be a pleasant family outing to solve it all turns out to be yet another excuse for self-involvement when one public humiliation doesn’t outweigh the joys of getting busy in a windmill.2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club:
2 more examples
- Alyx Vance: Did Dr. Kleiner just say to everyone that they should get busy?2007, Half Life 2 Episode Two:
- Thurl: Are you busy? Alexia: Really? The days pass like decades in here, Thurl. We won't be busy until that worldship decides to talk back to us. Thurl: And yet, you have been… Alexia: Thurl. If you say "getting busy" I will punch you so hard you'll have to spawn child processes just to feel all the pain.2019 August 22, “Book 20: Sergeant In Motion — Part I”, in Schlock Mercenary:
- Synonyms
- get freaky, get it on, get laid