from the get-go

English

Alternative forms

• from the git-go

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

from the get-go

1. (idiomatic, colloquial) From the very beginning; from the outset; immediately upon starting.

   I watched him closely from the get-go because I did not trust him.

   • 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 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.

   • 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^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Synonyms

• from the word go
• See off the bat § Synonyms

Translations

from the very beginning

• Arabic: مُنْذُ الْبِدايةِ (munḏu l-bidāyati)
• Catalan: d'ençà de l'inici
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 從一開始 / 从一开始 (cóng yī kāishǐ)

• Dutch: van meet af aan
• Finnish: alusta alkaen
• French: d’entrée de jeu (fr)
• German: von Anfang an (de)
• Irish: ón tús ar fad
• Korean: 처음 시작할 당시부터 (cheo'eum sijakhal dangsibuteo)
• Portuguese: desde o começo/início
• Spanish: desde el principio
• Welsh: o'r cychwyn cyntaf