I like to the expression, "to haul ass".
"On the ball" is a sports reference. It means that you are in control of the ball, so the idiom means to have things well in hand, to have anticipated all obstacles and be in control and a little ahead of things.
To drag your feet is to move slowly. "Don't drag your feet" means hurry up.
Picture someone weighed down with lead weights -- if you get the lead out, you move faster. It means hurry up.
To drag your feet is to move slowly. "Don't drag your feet" means hurry up.
It means.. Take action or Get going or Get moving or move quickerShake a leg means to hurry up. For example "Shake a leg we are already late for the game."
to hurry through means to rush
It's not an idiom. It means exactly what it looks like.
Hurry up, finish what you started, whats the main part of this question, stuff like that. It's not necessarily and idiom, just a popular saying people use.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
An idiom that means surrender is to "wave the white flag." A closely related idiom is to "throw in the towel" which means to give up."
Can you literally be inside of a pickle?No, so it's an idiom. It means in trouble.
It's not an idiom. It means exactly what it says. "By all means" or "by any method necessary."