get off the ground
take off **

Other programs are not standing still while 12 gets off the ground.

The project, however, never got off the ground, and little information about it was ever made public.

Then the first part of my plan will get off the ground.

But at that meeting in 1882 the company got off the ground.

Now, what are you doing to really see this is getting off the ground?

He and eight other people who had paid their money never got off the ground.

The plan for the university needs about $50 million to get off the ground.

So far this process has yet to get off the ground.

"Or even stop it from getting off the ground in the first place?"

If the answer there was yes, maybe she did have some hope of getting off the ground again after all.