Get to work means to reach your workplace: How do you get to work? Its second meaning is to start working on something: Let's get to work! People say this in the office and at home, before cleaning or cooking.
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get to work (by bus/car/on foot); it takes + time + to get to work; get to work on + task
- It takes me about forty minutes to get to work when the trains are on time.
- The guests arrive at six, so let's get to work on the salad and the dessert.
- I got to work late today because of an accident on the motorway.
What changed
First versionIt takes me forty minutes to get to the work by bus.
RevisionIt takes me forty minutes to get to work by bus.
When work means the place where you work, it takes no article, like home and school: go to work, get to work, at work. The work would mean a particular job or task, not the office. It's easy to add the where the place feels specific, but here it doesn't belong.
Go to work simply states that you travel to your job: I go to work at eight. Get to work puts the focus on the journey and arriving: How long does it take you to get to work? And get to work on something is about the task: We need to get to work on the report.
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We're all in the office and we've finished our coffee, so let's stop chatting and ___.
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get to work — Everyone is already in the office, so nobody needs to travel: it's time to start working, and that's get to work. Go to work means to set off for your job, but they're already there.
Describe how you get to work or to your place of study. Say what transport you use and how long the journey takes.
I get to work by tram, and it usually takes me about twenty-five minutes.
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