| 单词 | to get off one's backside |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get off one's backside P3. to get off one's backside: to stir oneself to action, esp. after a period of apathy or inertia; to initiate a necessary course of action; to get (back) to work. Cf. to get off —— 1b at get v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΚΠ 1943 J. Bromley & P. Cooper Clear Tracks! xiii. 163 You came all the way from Binghamton to Utica without putting a drop of oil on your engine. Too lazy to get off your backside. 1975 D. Marsden Workless viii. 178 These pictures are really things that I want to do..if I could get off me backside to go and sell 'em. 1990 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 27 May 42/2 Now he has a new message for Australians: get off your backsides and fix the economy. 2005 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 13 June He says today's unemployed don't want to do a job for £200 a week—they'll only get off their backsides for £500. < as lemmas |
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