get a move on
Pick up pace
Get a move on is an imperative urging someone to hurry up or start moving: Get a move on or we'll miss the train.
It can be directed at oneself: I'd better get a move on if I want to finish by noon.
The phrase implies impatience with delay or slowness.
- step on itUrging someone to hurry
- shake a legUrging someone to hurry
- make it snappyDemand for haste
- chop-chopUrgent command for speed
- hurryMove with urgency
hop to it · fly · look alive · pronto · haste · rush · snap to it · quicken · dash · burn rubber · rocket · on the double · double time · whirl · hustle · scramble · late · no time to lose
speed/urgency
get a move onslow down
Reduce pace or speed
take your time · dawdle · linger · dilly-dally · drag your feet
move, get, moving, moved, movement, getting, movable, immovable, gotten