Get nowhere
Also, not get anywhere. Make no progress, as in I’ve tried to put this together, but I’m getting nowhere with it. This expression is sometimes intensified as get nowhere fast, as in I tried phoning but got nowhere fast. [ Early 1900s ]
Also see: get there
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- Get off scot-free
see: get off , def. 4.
- Get nowhere fast
verb phrase To make no progress whatever; be stuck: He was getting nowhere fast and was more depressed (1920s+)
- Get off the block
verb phrase To start, esp to start quickly: My game plan was to get off the block first and stay out there [1980s+; fr the starting blocks used by runners for initial impetus]
- Get off the dime
verb phrase To start; stop wasting time; get off the block: How do we get off the dime we’re on?/ with word from the Mayor to get off the dime [1925+; alteration of the expression stop on a dime, used to praise the brakes of a car] Take action, especially following a time of indecision […]
- Get off the ground
verb phrase To succeed, esp to do so initially: Those projects misfired or didn’t get off the ground at all [1940s+; fr the takeoff of a plane] Make a start, get underway, as in Because of legal difficulties, the construction project never got off the ground. This expression, alluding to flight, dates from the mid-1900s. […]