get one's ass in gear

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get one's ass in gear

verb gets one's ass in gear · getting one's ass in gear · got one's ass in gear · gotten one's ass in gear · get one's arse into gear · get one's ass into gear

  1. US, idiomatic To exert effective effort; to get going; to get moving; to start producing. He had been sitting there for two hours until the boss showed up and told him to get his ass in gear.

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