go to work

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go to work (third-person singular simple present goes to work, present participle going to work, simple past went to work, past participle gone to work)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ to,‎ work. (This sense is a translation hub.)
2. To begin performing some task or work.
3. To go to one's job, as by commuting.
4. (idiomatic) To beat up, to batter.

   I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left.

5. (idiomatic) To go to town.

• "to go to work" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• “go to work”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.