get off one's duff
get off one's duff
Get moving, become active. This slangy idiom uses duff in the sense of buttocks, a usage dating from about 1840 and at that time considered impolite. It no longer is, at least not in America, and if anything this cliché is a euphemism for still ruder synonyms, such as get off one’s butt or get off one’s ass.
See also: duff, get, off
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- go off one's chump/head/rocker, to
- pratfall
- get a load of something/someone
- something else, he/she/it is
- tree hugger
- push up daisies, to
- lower the boom, to
- for the birds, it's/that's
- cool!
- lot of hooey, a