Hit the Ground Running informal verb phrase
If you hit the ground running, you start to work immediately with a lot of energy.
I want to hit the ground running after graduating from university.
The principal said he expects all of his students to hit the ground running after they graduates.
Enthusiasm and perseverance
1. Having achieved success or acceptance.
2. To do something fast and enthusiastically.
An abundance of exuberant, young vigor, enthusiasm, or vitality.
The verb "hit" should be conjugated according to its tense.
There are many point of views about the idiom's origin. However, in many documents, the phrase was first used from 1900s.
To be very wet
Because of forgetting bringing an umbrella, I look like a drowned rat when it rains.