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get the lead out

verb

Etymology

A shortened form of get the lead out of one's shoes (or one's pants). Here, lead refers to a very heavy metal, thus the expression means roughly to get rid of whatever is slowing one down and hurry up.

Definitions

  1. To go faster

    To go faster; to hurry up.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA