get the lead out
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get the lead out
Where it comes from
A shortened form of get the lead out of one's shoes (or one's pants). Here, lead refers to a very heavy metal, thus the expression means roughly to get rid of whatever is slowing one down and hurry up.
verb gets the lead out · getting the lead out · got the lead out · gotten the lead out
- To go faster; to hurry up.
