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get off one's tail
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Also, get off one's butt . Stop loafing and start doing something. For example, Get off your tail and help your mother , or I should get off my butt, but I'm exhausted . Neither slangy expression, with its allusion to the buttocks, is considered polite.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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