OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 56626

off to the races

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a las carreras • listoco para empezar
In or into a process of energetic engagement in some activity; in or into a phase of conspicuously increasing satisfaction or success.
48 Hours […] was followed by hits such as Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and Raw. Eddie Murphy's career was off to the races.
Last week the magazine's tenth annual rating of the nation's leading corporations showed that American business really went off to the races in 1963.
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