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from the get-go en · ADP

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Meanings

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) From the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting.
   • I am 15 and in love with a fellow that goes to college in another state. I met him during the summer vacation and liked him from the get go. 1960 November 8, J. F., “Tell It to Jan: Are College Boys True to the Girls Back Home”, in Baltimore Afro-American, five ★ edition, 69th year, number 31, Baltimore, Md.: Afro-American Co., →ISSN, Afro Magazine section, page 6, column 1:
   • I watched him closely from the get-go because I did not trust him.
   • An artist from the get-go, Gilot declared at the age of 21 that she “felt painting was my whole life”, and her output ranges from portraits to landscapes, still lifes to collage. 2023 June 12, Katy Hessel, “‘Blatant sexism’: why is a great painter who lived to 101 still defined by a man she left in the 1950s?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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Synonyms

the word go · off the bat § Synonyms

Translations (18)

fi alusta alkaen (from the very beginning) · fr dès le début (from the very beginning) · de von Anfang an (from the very beginning) · fr dès le départ (from the very beginning) · ca d'ençà de l'inici (from the very beginning) · fr d'entrée de jeu (from the very beginning) · ar مُنْذُ الْبِدايةِ (from the very beginning) · hu kezdettől fogva (from the very beginning) · ko 처음 시작할 당시부터 (from the very beginning) · es desde el principio (from the very beginning) · pl od początku (from the very beginning) · fr d'emblée (from the very beginning) · cmn 從一開始 /从一开始 (from the very beginning) · ga ón tús ar fad (from the very beginning) · pl od samego początku (from the very beginning) · nl van meet af aan (from the very beginning) · pt desde o começo/início (from the very beginning) · cy o'r cychwyn cyntaf (from the very beginning)