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get serious
verb as in buckle down
Weak matches
- address
- apply oneself
- attend to
- bend
- concentrate on
- dedicate oneself to
- devote oneself to
- exert oneself
- give
- give oneself over to
- keep close to
- keep one's mind on
- knuckle down
- launch into
- occupy oneself with
- pitch in
- plunge into
- put one's hand to the plow
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- set to
- swing into action
- take the bull by the horns
- throw
- turn
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Example Sentences
Now it was time for the younger sibling to get serious.
From Los Angeles Times
His pitch is that the party needs to "get serious" and confront hard truths - and that only he can make the changes needed to win the next election.
From BBC
"Things started to get serious," he told officers, "they finally started to believe what I was saying."
From BBC
We used it to warn parents there’d be consequences if they didn’t get serious.
From Salon
“It’s a crisis situation. ... It’s only going to get worse until we really get serious about addressing it.”
From Los Angeles Times
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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