It means just what it sounds like - someone is not moving at all, not even one muscle.
Think about it for a minute and you can figure it out. What would it mean if you were up? Out of bed and feeling fine? What would it mean if you were about? About town, traveling around? The saying just means you're awake and moving around!
The meaning of traffic was heavy means that there was a traffic jam during while you were driving to work or something. Or to answer it without using another slang term -- there were a lot of automobiles on the road and traffic was moving very slowly.
moving in a sequential or rhythmic manner
Moving about randomly without apparent purpose.
To "toy around" with something means to be considering something, without having made a final decision, e.g., "I am toying around with the idea of moving to New York, although California is also an option." For the dictionary definition, see the Related Link.
A vegetable is a plant, so if you are "vegetating," you are just sitting around like a plant.
The word about is often a preposition. It can be an adverb (to look about, about done) and much less clearly an adjective, in idiomatic forms meaning going or moving about (he was up and about, not many about at that hour).
I think you mis-heard this. I've never heard of any such idiom. There is something called "fits and starts," that means moving in a jerky fashion, however. Perhaps that's what you heard.
Think about it for a minute and you can figure it out. What would it mean if you were up? Out of bed and feeling fine? What would it mean if you were about? About town, traveling around? The saying just means you're awake and moving around!
Moving randomly refers to changing direction or location without following a discernible pattern or predetermined path. It involves unpredictable movement without a specific goal or direction in mind.
"Her foot went asleep" refers to her foot feels numb, such as you stop moving it for a long time and it feels weird when you move it, like needles are being pushed through it, but less pain, but it wears off as though it's waking up.
The notes are moving
It means that what you have been asked to do is part of the job. 'Post' meaning the job position. Sometimes the expression is used to suggest that you should be doing this as part of your job, even if it is outside of what the contract states, as a way of getting things moving.
grooving, moving, hoofing
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Not linked to any particular origin, noticed in a Washington paper dated 1895, in a book by Harry Wilson dated 1903. Generally meaning 'moving very fast and recklessly'
Travelling Without Moving was created on 1996-09-09.