from the get-go

idiom

US, informal

: from the very beginning

She didn't like me from the get-go.

They were involved in the project from the get-go.

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However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view. —

Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Some other franchises, famously Chick-fil-A, have been open only six days a week from the get-go. —

Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025 Was the real-time format baked in from the get-go, and was that part of what excited you about a return to the genre? That calls into question all the various chronologies of this and all the different sort of iterations. —

Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 9 Jan. 2025 The above impression comes from just four miles of driving, during a snowstorm so fierce the vehicle was caked in muck and mire, from the get-go. —

Josh Max, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for from the get-go

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