kicking in
Beginning to work
Kicking in describes something beginning to take effect.
Medicine kicks in when you start to feel it working: The painkillers should kick in soon.
A policy kicks in when it becomes active.
The phrase also means contributing money to a shared effort: Everyone kicked in twenty bucks for the gift.
To kick in a door is to force it open with your foot.
- bribingPaying for illicit favor
- corruptingCausing moral decay
- paying offProducing desired results
- footing the billAssuming financial responsibility
- chipping inContributing to shared fund
putting in · kickstart · getting started · donating · triggering · commencing · volunteering · breaking · breaking down · smashing · manifesting · hammering · materializing · offering · emerging · pooling · sharing · initiating
- powering upcharging, activating, energizing, turning on, powering up
kicking inwearing off
Gradually losing effectiveness
fading · subsiding · tapering off · dissipating · dying down
kicking inwithholding
Keeping from another
opting out · holding back · freeloading · keeping · withdrawing
kicking inbarricading
Blocking passage with obstacles
reinforcing · securing · fortifying · boarding up · blocking