What does "we're off to the races" mean? And eventually some crow gets a bright idea: "Hey, there's lots of coins lying around from the first stage, hops down, picks it up, drops it in the slot, and we're off to the races. That crow enjoys a temporary monopoly on peanuts, until his friends figure out how to do it, and then there we go. In the experiment, the researchers designed a vending machine for crows. it uses Skinnerian training to shape crows' behavior over four stages. And this is the last stage. I suppose "we're off to the races" could mean we lose and crows win because they find the way to eat peanuts. Am I correct? Thank you.