start something

He'll start something and then he'll be like, "Oh, I wish you had been a part of it."

With the cancer diagnosis giving Jane a new "focus", she found a group of similar families nearby - many old school friends of Ellie's - who were looking to start something called a housing cooperative.

There’s definitely a sense that she’s about to start something.

“They bought in right from the start. It’s disappointing; when you start something like this you don’t do it to get three wins in the playoffs or five wins in the playoffs. You do it to go the whole way.”

“They’re not going to start something they can’t finish.”