What is "gets started"

Usage examples of "gets started".

A nucleus of 4 to 7 people is best and it is necessary that no member feels extremely hostile to any other member when the commune gets started.

In Habermas's theory of communicative action, for example, the speaker has to assume identical signification or else the conversation never gets started.

In any case, they burn well, and if a fire gets started in the grass below, the main job of the stand-by fire crews is to keep it from reaching the oaks which squat there in the dry wind like an army of nervous virgins, a firestorm waiting for a spark.

At first Tommy doesn't want to be bothered explaining the camp layout, but when he gets started, he can't help himself, he has to explain everything in detail.

If a politician once gets started on the road of paying off political obligations with patronage, he quickly finds that there is never enough patronage to go around.