| 单词 | to get off the pot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto (shit or) get off the pot P13. coarse slang (chiefly North American). to (shit or) get off the pot and variants: to take action or make a decision, or else allow another person to do so; frequently in imperative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] > or abandon it to (shit or) get off the pot1938 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)] > play craps > order to player to (shit or) get off the pot1938 1938 J. Weidman What's in it for Me? 257 It's crap or get off the pot. 1939 A. Bessie Men in Battle vii. 198 They could say, ‘See, we sent home our volunteers,’ to Franco, ‘now shit or get off the pot.’ 1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted xvi. 298 This is our last chance. Absolutely our last. We've got to do it now or get off the pot. 1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1269/2 Shit or get off the pot! A Canadian Army c.p. (1939–45), directed at a dice-player unable to ‘crap out’. 1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive x. 90 Get some definite information for me. Tell the Ambassador to get off the bloody pot. 1972 Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 26/2 Shit or get off the pot, vulgar. A command that someone either complete an action in process or abandon the attempt and give someone else the opportunity to try. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xii. 275 You better tell some of those limousine liberals back in Langley Virginia it's time for them to shit or get off the pot. 1996 Guardian 6 Feb. ii. 9/3 The response from her gay friends, Maggie says, has been: ‘Piss or get off the pot. It's ironic that they should be less accepting than my straight friends of what I see as just another degree of queerness.’ < as lemmas |
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