pull one's finger out

English

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) A reference to sexual foreplay.

Verb

pull one's finger out

(idiomatic) To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task
You've been sitting there all week. It's time you sorted yourself out and pulled your finger out!

References

“get (or pull) one's finger out” (US) / “get (or pull) one's finger out” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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