bike
get off your bike become annoyed. Australian & New Zealand informal
1939Xavier HerbertCapricornia 'I tell you I saw no-one.' 'Don't get off your bike, son.-I know you're tellin' lies.'
on your bike!
1 go away!
2 take action! British informal
☞ Sense 2 became a catchphrase in 1980s Britain, when it was used as an exhortation to the unemployed to show initiative in their attempt to find work. It was taken from a speech by the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit in which he said of his unemployed father: 'He did not riot, he got on his bike and looked for work.'