start out
phrasal verbwithstartverbuk/stɑːt/us/stɑːrt/
C1
tobeginyourlife, or thepartofyourlifewhen youwork, in aparticularway:
开始人生;开始职业生涯Mydadstartedoutasasalespersonin ashop.我爸爸最初在一家商店当售货员。
- Hestartedout as ateacherand onlybeganwriting in histhirties.
- Whatstartedout as apart-timejobsoonbecameafull-timeoccupation.
- Shestartedout as awaitressand wasspottedby amodelscout.
- Shestartedoutlifeas Norma Jean Mortenson.
- It's hard tobelieveshestartedout as a magician'sassistant.
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush ofidiom
- be/get in on the ground flooridiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- develop
- export
- get down to businessidiom
- grow
- half-cock
- here
- here goes!idiom
- hit the ground runningidiom
- strike
- strike out(somewhere)
- stuck
- stumble intosomething
- swing into actionidiom
- takesomethingup
- the ground floor