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get off one's ass en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US, informal) To stop lazing around.
    • Mr. Braddock: But after a few weeks, I believe that person would wanna take some stock in himself and his situation, and start to think about getting off his ass! 1967, The Graduate:
    • I was sick of bands I liked not having any records out. I had wanted to put out records for a long time and one day I finally got off of my fat ass and did it. 1994, Chris Dodge, quotee, “Slap a Ham Records”, in Chaotic Noise, number 3, Roanoke, Va., [https://archive.org/details/chaotic_noise_3/page/n43/mode/2up?q=ass page [44]]:

Forms

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gotten off one's ass Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got off one's ass Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
got off one's ass Tense=Past lexicographic
getting off one's ass Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets off one's ass Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic