单词 | on your bike |
释义 | > as lemmas(get) on your bike P2. (get) on your bike and variants: get moving, take action; (hence) go away, ‘push off’, ‘get lost’.The phrase is often inaccurately attributed to the Employment Secretary, Norman Tebbit, as advice to unemployed people to travel in order to find work, following inner-city riots in 1981 which were linked to unemployment. His actual words were ‘My father didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.’ ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] > injunction to busy oneself (get) on your bike1948 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [phrase] here lies our way1609 go scrape!1611 off (with you)!1809 on your way1865 twenty-three skidoo1926 (get) on your bike1980 1948 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 23 Oct. 4/3 Quick, get on your bike! Take this scandalous thing to the Court Supreme. 1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. xi. 219 ‘On your bike then, son,’ one of the policemen told him… He couldn't take any pictures of that particular building. 1983 Economist 22 Oct. 25 He ‘got on his bike’ and looked for work. ‘On yer bike, Tebbit!’ became the slogan of right-to-work marchers. 1996 G. P. Daly Homeless vii. 137 A leading cabinet member..advised young people that the solution to their employment problems was simply to ‘get on your bike’. 2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 21 Mar. 3 The moment I found out I'd say, 'Right, that's it. On your bike mate!' And he would be straight out that door with all his things. < as lemmas |
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