flying start | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)An especially good start.The new restaurant got off to aflying start, packing out every night.1956February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, inRailway Magazine, page90:He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for aflying starton the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.2011December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, inDaily Record‎[1]:And six minutes in they should have got off to aflying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.; The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point.

Examples:

EN: We have with us tonight a little lady that came down here just to send the Jive Club off to a flying start, singing a brand-new song as only she can sing it, Connee Boswell.
ES: Tenemos con nosotros esta noche a una señorita que ha venido para desear que este Club de Jazz alcance las estrellas, cantando un nuevo tema como solo ella puede interpretar,
EN: They're off to a flying start.
ES: Les espera un buen comienzo.
EN: We're off to a flying start.
ES: Empezamos con muy buen pie.
EN: He was to have a five mile flying start before crossing the electric timing strip of the measured mile.
ES: Debería recorrer 5 millas... y pasar por el cronómetro electrónico... correspondiente a una determinada milla.
EN: Now, for this scene, we need the sort of bright, breezy song... that will get the show off to a flying start.
ES: Para esta escena, necesitamos una canción alegre, con ritmo que le dé a la obra un gran comienzo.
EN: Yes, but with your brain and the Thursby name why, you're off to a flying start.
ES: Sí, pero con ese cerebro y el apellido Thursby, arrancarás en un periquete.
EN: Anyway, I told you you'd be off to a flying start.
ES: Ya te dije que arrancarías en un periquete.
EN: Sure got off to a flying start with him.
ES: Pues sí que he empezado bien.
EN: Well, I'm off to a flying start.
ES: Bueno, empecé muy bien.
EN: Anyway, we're off to a flying start, and uh...
ES: De todos modos, puedes estar tranquilo.
EN: He and his like gave England a flying start in the economy of the 19th century, but the result of their inventions was a dehumanisation that obsessed almost every great imaginative writer of the time.
ES: Él y los suyos le dieron a Inglaterra un buen inicio en la economía del siglo XIX, pero el resultado de sus inventos fue una deshumanización que obsesionó a casi todo gran escritor imaginativo de la época.
EN: And that means that Ho-Jon's college career is off to a flying start.
ES: Eso supone que la carrera universitaria de Ho-Jon empieza con muy buen pie.
EN: Operation Excitement... is off to a flying start!
ES: ¡"Operacion Excitante" esta a punto de nacer una estrella!
EN: We like to get off on a flying start, sir.
ES: Empezamos con buen pie, señor.
EN: We didn't get off to a flying start, did we?
ES: Creo que hemos chocado desde el principio.

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