get a wriggle on

present singular third person gets a wriggle on · participle present getting a wriggle on · past got a wriggle on · UK participle past got a wriggle on · US participle past gotten a wriggle on

1. colloquialidiomaticTo hurry up.

   Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?

   1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218

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   While accepting he needs to get a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

   2008 January 13, Darren Walton, “Don't write me off”, in The Advertiser

   Synonyms: get a wiggle on