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² = get off + the ground, lift off, take off, blast off.

Ex. From the beginning it has been a local service, originally funded from the rates, but it needed Carnegie grants to really get off the ground.

Ex. Plaster was mixed with water and poured over the type, and allowed to set; when it had hardened it was lifted off the page (the oil preventing it from sticking to the type), and baked hard in an oven.

Ex. Dumont was proclaimed the inventor of the aeroplane when his craft took off and flew for 60 meters in front of a crowd on October 23, 1906.

Ex. His dream came true when he finally blasted off into space hoping that he would be just the first of many more Malaysian.