Hit the ground running

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🗓️ 24 December 2012

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Kaz decides to 'hit the ground running' in this week's programme. Find out what this phrase means by listening to this programme.

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use go to BBCworldservice.com
0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:14.0	Oh, hello, I'm Kaz.
0:18.0	I'm Jan Li.
0:21.0	Hey, Kaz, you are out of breath and wearing running shoes. What's going on?
0:27.0	Wait a minute, Lee. Let me catch my breath. Yes, I'm wearing my running shoes because I've been running.
0:34.0	You've been running, why? Were you late?
0:37.0	No, it was because of something my boss told me to do.
0:40.0	Your boss told you to run to the studio.
0:43.0	Strange.
0:44.0	No, no, she said, Kaz, when you start tomorrow's program, I want you to hit the ground running.
0:50.0	I want you to hit the ground running.
0:52.0	Sounds rather dangerous.
0:55.0	Well I thought I'd do it literally you know just for fun.
0:58.0	Oh I see you thought you'd literally hit the ground running so you leapt off a fast moving bus and
1:05.0	ended up running all the way to the studio. That's right that's why I'm out of breath.
1:09.3	I literally hit the ground running. But I get the feeling your boss didn't want you to
1:14.6	literally hit the ground running. Uh-huh. You're absolutely rightly. When she
1:19.8	said, KAS, when you start tomorrow's program, I want you to hit the ground running.
1:25.8	She meant, when you start tomorrow's program, I want you to immediately work very hard on it
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