Off And Running Meaning

(idiomatic) Launched or launching vigorously into a course of action.

Example: 2000 July 24, Felicity Barringer, "Running on Adrenaline And Ideology at The Post," New York Times (retrieved 16 April 2015):
  But both newspapers made the same point. . . . And so the story was off and running.
2007 Oct. 27, Jessica Au, "When Movies Follow The Storm," Newsweek (retrieved 16 April 2015):
  The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy "California Dreamin'," is off and running.
2014 Dec. 14, Jay Fitzgerald, "Economic recovery starts gaining steam," Boston Globe (retrieved 16 April 2015):
  [T]he recovery seems to have entered a new stage in recent months. “We’re finally off and running,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.