get a move on
Example Sentences
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"It's not for me to tell a chair of an inquiry, look you have got to get a move on, start hearings here there on whenever," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2022
The scoreboard at the Sentry Tournament of Champions delivered a clear message to get a move on it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022
Others urged U.S. market participants not to wait until mid 2023 but to get a move on by learning from the more advanced switch in Europe.
From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2021
I’m still a fair way short of that threshold, but let’s just say the curtain has gone up on Act 3, and it’s time to get a move on.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021
If I’m in the orchard, the older apple trees will tell me, “You’d better get a move on, Ida B” or “Go on now and see what your daddy wants.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
