Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive idiomatic English) To succeed or begin to succeed. 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) To make (something) succeed.
WordNet
v. get started or set in motion, used figuratively; "the project took a long time to get off the ground" [syn: take off]
Usage examples of "get off the ground".
Earthside that would be over a hundred pounds and I could flap forever and never get off the ground.
The weather was too lousy to let aeroplanes get off the ground, so the pilots had little to do but sit around and drink.
At the first hint from him that anything dangerous was approaching the area, she'd use the car's communicator to have everybody pile into the other two aircars and get off the ground.
I think that the People are convinced their precious ship has the power to get off the ground.
Then I began to trot a little as I lofted, and my feet would get off the ground for a moment, and so I couldn't resist, I couldn't help it, I began to run and to loft my wings, and then beat down, and loft again, and I was up!
This is perhaps the proper place to acknowledge that without that kind of work done by teachers and researchers all over the world, nobody would get off the ground or to the stars.
The reason for this was that no one had really believed such an enormous thing would ever get off the ground without blowing up.
That's why the landing craft had become immobilized, impossible to get off the ground.
Unless we can knock out the retaining field projectors in one blow we'll never get off the ground.