off the ground

Under way, as if in flight: Because of legal difficulties, the construction project never got off the ground.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
AnĐEla	-	Croatian, Serbian
Nena	-	English
Hanifa	-	Arabic
Timur	tee-MOOR (Russian)	History, Tatar, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian
Acketts	['ækits]
PÉNÉLope	pe-ne-LOP	French