"pull one's finger out" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of pull one's finger out of one's arse, probably from the notion that one should not sit on one's hands.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull one's finger out (third-person singular simple present pulls one's finger out, present participle pulling one's finger out, simple past and past participle pulled one's finger out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You've been sitting there all week. It's time you sorted yourself out and pulled your finger out!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 23, “Network News: Warning of risk to new-builds unless funding settlement agreed”, in RAIL, number 953, page 18:",
          "text": "Speaking at Mayor's Question Time on February 24, Sheikh said: \"It's time for the Government to pull its finger out and give TfL the funding package it needs in the wake of the pandemic.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_one's_finger_out-en-verb-idrS1d~H",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pull one's finger out.ogg",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pull one's finger out"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of pull one's finger out of one's arse, probably from the notion that one should not sit on one's hands.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled one's finger out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull one's finger out (third-person singular simple present pulls one's finger out, present participle pulling one's finger out, simple past and past participle pulled one's finger out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You've been sitting there all week. It's time you sorted yourself out and pulled your finger out!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 23, “Network News: Warning of risk to new-builds unless funding settlement agreed”, in RAIL, number 953, page 18:",
          "text": "Speaking at Mayor's Question Time on February 24, Sheikh said: \"It's time for the Government to pull its finger out and give TfL the funding package it needs in the wake of the pandemic.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pull one's finger out.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-au-pull_one%27s_finger_out.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull one's finger out"
}