Get Cracking

Definition: Get Cracking

1. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!".

Modern Usage: Get Cracking

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Lets get cracking. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) See the thing is, is that if you want to go to the Tonight Show, you're going to have to get cracking. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garc�a Estrada) Well get cracking, 007! (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)
Movie/TV Titles	Get Cracking (1943)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: Get Cracking

Modern Translations: Get Cracking

Language		Translations for "get cracking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		hodit sebou (buck up, whip), hnout sebou (get off one's backside), do toho (to), dej se do toho. (various references)

French		se mettre au travail (get cracking on a job). (various references)

Hungarian		nekilát (set to, -taken, to fall to, to get cracking, to get down, to go at it baldheaded, to spring to, to undertake, -took), nekigyürkőzik (to brace oneself, to get cracking, to gird up one's loins, to go at it baldheaded, to knuckle down to sg, to knuckle to sg, to roll up one's sleeves, to turn up one's sleeves), hozzáfog (buckle down to, to get cracking, to go at it baldheaded, to grasp the nettle, to make a dent, to set upon, to start on). (various references)

Pig Latin		etgay ackingcray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Get Cracking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-g-i-k-n-r-t"
	-2 letters: accreting, racketing, retacking.
	-3 letters: acentric, argentic, catering, cracking, creaking, creating, reacting, retaking, tracking.
	-4 letters: anergic, arcking, carking, carting, centric, ceratin, certain, cigaret, crating, creatin, cricket, gearing, gecking, gracing, granite, gratine, grating, ingrate, karting, keratin, naggier, racking, recking, tackier, tacking, tacrine, tangier, tearing, tracing.
	-5 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, acting, ageing, aigret, antick, arcing, arctic, argent.
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Alternative Orthography: Get Cracking

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Expression using "get cracking": get cracking on a job. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.