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get the go-ahead

[get the go-ahead] or [the green light] {v. phr.}

To receive the permission or signal to start or to proceed.

/We had to wait until we got the go-ahead on our research project./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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