The initial moment
The get-go is the very beginning or start of something, used almost exclusively in the phrase from the get-go: I knew from the get-go this would be trouble.
The expression is informal and emphatic—it stresses that something was true from the earliest moment, not gradually discovered.
To set going
commencement · kickoff · dawn · genesis · origin · birth · threshold · baseline · foundation · groundwork
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The initial moment
The get-go is the very beginning or start of something, used almost exclusively in the phrase from the get-go: I knew from the get-go this would be trouble.
The expression is informal and emphatic—it stresses that something was true from the earliest moment, not gradually discovered.
1. beginning — start, To set going; outset (Initial point of something); onset (Starting point of something); inception (Founding moment); commencement · kickoff · dawn · genesis · origin · birth · threshold · baseline · foundation · groundwork
temporal position in a process or sequenceget-go ≠ end Final portion or cessation; finish · conclusion · ending · finale · close
forget, getting, forgetful, gets, get going, forgetting, get started
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/get-go