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get a move on

To hurry up, to get moving.

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  • The first colloquial expression dates from the late 1800s. The second term, also colloquial, employs the verb to crack in the sense of "travel with speed," a usage dating from the early 1800s, but the idiom dates only from the first half of the 1900s.
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I need to get a move on if I'm going to arrive before 3.

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Submitted on September 01, 2009

Modified by TriplePurple on June 07, 2024

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