Definitions

swing into action

VERB

buckle down

Synonyms

WEAK

address apply oneself attend to bend concentrate on dedicate oneself to devote oneself to exert oneself get serious give give oneself over to keep close to keep one's mind on knuckle down launch into occupy oneself with pitch in plunge into put one's hand to the plow put one's nose to the grindstone set to take the bull by the horns throw turn

Antonyms

WEAK

be lazy ignore relax

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swing into action

Now that a super-eruption appears imminent with high confidence, world leaders swing into action.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

If farmers still don’t agree to stop logging or planting avocados, that’s when Cheran’s forestry patrols swing into action.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Studies indicate that glia, the cells that nurture neurons in the CNS, swing into action in response to damage to peripheral nerves.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2021

The appearance of a virus should prompt these specialized cells to swing into action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

In the spring of 1933, as Hermann Muller began his work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, he watched Nazi “applied biology” swing into action.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

swing into action

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