From THE THREE-DAY BLOW by ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
"I wonder if Cards will ever win a pennant?"
"Not in our lifetime," Bill said.
"Gee, they'd go crazy," Nick said.
"Do you remember when they got going that once before they had the train wreck?"
What does "got going that" mean here? If it's "got that" then it's clear to me, but when I search "got going" the meaning doesn't seem fit here.
Best Answer
"Get going that" means nothing. You are actually looking at two separate structures:
Get going, from wiktionary, means
And once is a variant of one time, with that as a determiner.
So:
means