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get/put your skates on

UK informal

Definition

used when you want to tell someone to hurry up: Get your skates on, or we'll be late.Expressions telling people to hurry up
(Definition of get/put your skates on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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