spring into action en · VERB
Meanings
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To begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.
“Springing into action is not the easy choice,” chef and humanitarian José Andrés, a two-time TIME100 honoree, writes in his tribute to Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
2021 September 15, Edward Felsenthal, quoting José Andrés, “How We Chose the 2021 TIME100”, in Time, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2021:At once the two henchmen sprang into action. Fingers grabbed Frank by looping his arms under the boy’s. He scooped him off the floor. “Get off me!” screamed the boy as he struggled to get away.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| springing into action | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sprung into action | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sprang into action | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| springs into action | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (6)
it passare all'azione (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.) · pl wkroczyć do akcji (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.) · mi arawhiti (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.) · pl wkraczać do akcji (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.) · fr passer à l'action (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.) · fi tarttua toimeen (begin doing something or become active suddenly and very quickly.)