Idiom
Get in on the ground floor.
If you get in on the ground floor, you enter a project or venture at the start before people know how successful it might be.
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Or, in other words, as Google buys Titan, it's definitely getting in on the ground (ahem) level here.
The background: We're getting in on the ground floor with this one because he's not got a record deal and he's yet to play a gig, but already people with radical haircuts are talking about Ben Esser.
In a larger sense, schools like UT Austin are getting in on the ground floor of a movement that could one day become the norm on campus the way counseling centers are today.
If you're familiar with the latter, you know that getting in on the "ground floor" of the "plastics" industry is one of the many things on which George Bailey Jimmy Stewartt) missed out in making sure the family business stayed afloat throughout tough times.
That's how things are built, and it's kind of exciting to imagine that, by attending one of these early atheist gatherings, you're getting in on the ground floor of something good.
Davidson, considered to have one of the sharpest minds in the game, was also getting in on the ground floor.
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While such stock offerings have a get-in-on-the-ground-floor appeal, current market circumstances weigh against them.
I want to get in on the ground floor with this one," Moss said of Perry.
We are one of the first families to move in here, and we got in on the ground floor of the development.
The public did get in on the ground floor.
"To get in on the ground level would be great.
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