get one's skates on

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get one's skates on (third-person singular simple present gets one's skates on, present participle getting one's skates on, simple past got one's skates on, past participle (UK) got one's skates on or (US) gotten one's skates on)

1. (informal, idiomatic) To start doing something quickly; to stop procrastinating; to hurry up.

   If I don't get my skates on now I'm going to be late!

• get a move on
• hurry up