crack on

English

Verb

crack on (third-person singular simple present cracks on, present participle cracking on, simple past and past participle cracked on)

(intransitive, idiomatic, often with 'with') continue at a (normally uninteresting) task.
I must crack on with my essay.
- 1888, Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris
  What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance?
To continue apace.
The project is really cracking on.
(transitive, dated) To put on.
to crack on more sail, or more steam

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