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"form": "getting a wiggle on",
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"ref": "1907, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 16, in The Brass Bowl",
"text": "“If yeh're goin' to see yer fren', yeh better get a wiggle on. He won't last long.”",
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"ref": "1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 17, in The Rules of the Game",
"text": "Get a wiggle on you, fellows. We'll never get out at this rate.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1915, John Galsworthy, The Little Man, sc. 1",
"text": "AMERICAN: My eggs! Get a wiggle on you!\nWAITER: Yes, sare.",
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},
{
"ref": "2008 June 11, \"Counties set to defy Modi diktat,\" indianexpress.com (India) (retrieved 20 May 2011)",
"text": "If it is up to Cricket Australia to come up with rules and regulations, then maybe they would like to get a wiggle on because this thing is about to start."
}
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"To hurry up."
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"(idiomatic, colloquial) To hurry up."
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"ref": "1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 17, in The Rules of the Game",
"text": "Get a wiggle on you, fellows. We'll never get out at this rate.",
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"text": "AMERICAN: My eggs! Get a wiggle on you!\nWAITER: Yes, sare.",
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},
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"ref": "2008 June 11, \"Counties set to defy Modi diktat,\" indianexpress.com (India) (retrieved 20 May 2011)",
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