get a wriggle on

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Meaning: (colloquial,idiomatic)Tohurry up.1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen,The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218:Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'dget a wriggle onwith the tea ?2008January 13, Darren Walton, “Don't write me off”, inThe Advertiser:While accepting he needs toget a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

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