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OP "Flora put her feet upon the fender, and settled herself for a
thorough good romantic disclosure. She started off at score,
tossing her head, sighing in the most demonstrative manner, making
a great deal of use of her eyebrows, and occasionally, but not
often, glancing at the quiet face that bent over the work."
A phrase new to me, but clearly meaning "at the beginning".
My copy of Little Dorrit comments that it is a variant on start from scratch. But in Dicken's day it meant start off at speed, the scratch or score being the starting mark at a race.
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