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— William Blake

Tyger, tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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verb

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

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get down to brass tacks

Part of Speechverb

To deal with the important details.

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Synonyms

cut to the chaseget down to businessnitty-grittynuts and boltsroll up one's sleeves

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Related Words

get to the bottom ofpiercedeep-diveget to grips withstart in onpragmatisenail down

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