get a wriggle on

English

Verb

get a wriggle on (third-person singular simple present gets a wriggle on, present participle getting a wriggle on, simple past got a wriggle on, past participle (UK) got a wriggle on or (US) gotten a wriggle on)

1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To hurry up.
   • 1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands eminent or rebellious, London, The Fanfrolico Press, pg. 218:

     Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?

   • 2008 January 13, Darren Walton, “Don't write me off”, in The Advertiser:

     While accepting he needs to get a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.