get going

verb7

1. •
   To leave, to depart, to get moving.

   • It is quite late, I'd best get going before sunset.
2. •
   To begin or commence.

   • We'd better get this project going. If we don't get going on it soon, we won't finish in time.
3. •
   To talk passionately without interruption.

   • Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said. — 1987
4. •
   To cause someone to talk passionately without interruption.

   • I got him going about the moon or stars, he would fall into that trap, he forgot about his questions and for hours talked to me about the universe. — 1999
5. •
   To excite intellectually.

   • She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end. — 1986
6. •
   To arouse sexually.

   • During the preliminaries I, as usual, "got her going" by irritation of the clitoris, among other things. — 1948
7. •
   To cry or bawl loudly.