Get the lead out!
get the lead out
To do something at a faster pace. (Lead is a very heavy metal.) Come on, these papers won't copy themselves—get the lead out, fellas!
See also: get, lead, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
Get the lead out!
exclam. Get moving!; Hurry up! (Crude. It is assumed that one has bowels full of lead.) Come on, you turkeys. Get the lead out!
See also: get, lead
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- get the lead out
- get the lead out of (one's) pants
- shake the lead out
- get the lead out of one's feet
- get the lead out of (one's) feet
- lead in
- led
- lead the line
- lead with
- lead (one) to the altar