hurry up
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- Defined as to "hurry up" in the New York Magazine in 1904. Prior to that, "to shake a leg" meant "to dance", but this definition is not in use any more. The Dubuque Democratic Herald, October 1863, in an advertisement for a local ball: “Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.”
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Additional definitions for 'shake a leg':
| shake a leg | a command to get busy, to get going, to do something quickly, to go faster, to move more hurriedly or to pick up pace |
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