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get on the stick
Idioms and Phrases
Start working, as in I have to get on the stick and start preparing dinner . This synonym for get going or get busy alludes to getting a car going by manipulating the gearshift, or stick . [ Slang ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
Today鈥檚 Democrats better get on the stick to protect their program, prontissimo.
鈥淲e know we鈥檝e got to get on the stick and do something.鈥
鈥淎nd then they can get on the stick and start recruiting more judges and training the judges,鈥 added Hogan, a Democrat who isn鈥檛 related to the governor.
How about Congress get on the stick and tell the executive branch to pursue the war on terror properly: Wage war on the Islamic State and arrest anyone in the U.S. who is a suspected terrorist.
Now Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who鈥檚 clearly had enough of Metro鈥檚 shenanigans, is threatening to withhold more than $7 million in regional transportation subsidies unless the three jurisdictions get on the stick.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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