This past week was cold and icy… I think winter can be over now! Anyway, my husband also had some really busy days at work. In one of his text messages, he mentioned that he had "hit the ground running." My first reaction? Wait… did you fall on the ice? He laughed and said, No, it’s just an idiom! I figured it was an idiom, but I still wanted to make sure he was okay and hadn’t actually slipped and fallen.
Idioms can be confusing, especially when the context makes them even trickier to understand. After all, he was so busy, practically running everywhere. So in a way, "hit the ground running" makes perfect sense!
I’ve been living in the U.S. for six years, teaching English for eleven, and I still come across new expressions. Maybe I’d heard this one before but never really paid attention. What does this mean?
