get a move on

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get a move on (third-person singular simple present gets a move on, present participle getting a move on, simple past got a move on, past participle (UK) got a move on or (US) gotten a move on)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) To hurry up, to get moving.
    I need to get a move on if I'm going to arrive before dark.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:
      Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began unlace his boots for wading.
    • 1951 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performsnce”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:
      The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to "get a move on."

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hurry up — see hurry up
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