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.

词组	get off one's duff
释义	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 See also: 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
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