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Get the lead out

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To go faster; to hurry up. dated, idiomatic

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.

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