Word.ws English Dictionary

getting off the mark

getting off the mark is the present participle and gerund of get off the mark.

Meaning of get off the mark

Verb

get off the mark (third-person singular simple present gets off the mark, present participle getting off the mark, simple past got off the mark, past participle (UK) got off the mark or (US) gotten off the mark)

  1. (idiomatic) To score one's first points
    • And now Leclerc has won two races while Vettel is still to get off the mark this year. Looking at the remaining races - the tracks they are on, and the pattern of Ferrari's form - it is far from certain he will get another chance.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport

Questions about getting off the mark

What is getting off the mark the present participle and gerund of?
Getting off the mark is the present participle and gerund of get off the mark.

Words near getting off the mark in the dictionary

  1. getting off one's chest
  2. getting off one's high horse
  3. getting off someone's back
  4. getting off someone's case
  5. getting off the ground
  6. getting off the mark
  7. getting off the nut
  8. getting off with
  9. getting on
  10. getting on at
  11. getting on like a house on fire

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: getting off the mark (page history and authors); get off the mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “getting off the mark.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/getting_off_the_mark. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.