get busy

Example Sentences

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In Mansfield: “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, where Tim Robbins’s character tells the inmate played by Morgan Freeman: “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I spin around and get busy opening three boxes of rigatoni and cheese.

From Literature

“Maybe I’m letting go of some old things, like music being scary, and embracing some new scary things. I don’t know what the hell I’m gonna do over there. Hopefully I get busy doing something. Otherwise I’ll be pitching the groundskeeper ideas for TV shows the whole time.”

From Los Angeles Times

In particular, Mr Matthews said, there are times when humans are better placed to take orders, especially when the restaurants get busy.

From BBC

“He’s expecting them to get busy on this bill and send it to his desk as soon as possible.”

From Los Angeles Times