get one's skates on

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get one's skates on

verb gets one's skates on · getting one's skates on · got one's skates on · gotten one's skates on

  1. idiomatic, informal To start doing something quickly; to stop procrastinating; to hurry up. If I don't get my skates on now I'm going to be late!

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