Talk:go to work

RFD
Rfd-sense: the first two senses "To begin performing some task or work." and "To go to one's job, as by commuting." should be replaced by. -- Liliana • 00:24, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The first sense would not be idiomatic, even with our definitions of work. We have the right sense of the components for "to go to one's job".
 * There is a use of the expression for which we lack the right sense of work. MWOnline has what seems like the right definition: "sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective or result". They place it as a subsense under the sense "activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something:". MW puts their definition for our "employment" sense as a subsense to the same sense, whereas we make "employment" to be a main sense.
 * go/get to work often use the MW sense. Definitions that to not include elements corresponding to "sustained effort", "overcoming obstacles", and "achieving results or objectives" fail to capture this.
 * At least we have the right sense of go: "start". DCDuring TALK 01:45, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * In my parochial experience, "(let's) get to work" is commoner. I would imagine work covers it. Equinox ◑ 01:52, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep as a translation target (even just one, literal sense). At least three four languages have a word for it (zh, ja, ko, vi). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 02:38, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep as translation target.Matthias Buchmeier (talk) 16:22, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep: The fact that there are multiple literal definitions suggests that it is ambiguous what "go to work" means. Therefore, we need to keep these. Pur ple back pack 89   17:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 02:30, 21 November 2014 (UTC)