Usually means: Start writing something down formally.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. put pen to paper: Merriam-Webster
  2. put pen to paper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put pen to paper: Wiktionary
  4. put pen to paper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. put pen to paper: Legal dictionary
  2. put pen to paper: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put pen to paper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put pen to paper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put pen to paper: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (put pen to paper)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To write something (especially using pen and ink).
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To begin to write something.

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