get a wriggle on

  • 1get a wriggle on — verb to get a move on Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think shed get a wriggle on with the tea ? …

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  • 2get a wriggle on — Vrb phrs. Get a move on, hurry up …

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  • 3Get a wriggle on — hurry up …

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  • 4get a wriggle on — Australian Slang hurry up …

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  • 5wriggle — [c]/ˈrɪgəl/ (say riguhl) verb (wriggled, wriggling) –verb (i) 1. to twist to and fro, writhe, or squirm. 2. to move along by twisting and turning the body, as a worm or snake. 3. to make one s way by shifts or expedients: to wriggle out of a… …

  • 6wriggle out — get out by squirming …

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  • 7wriggle out of — Get out of (by adroit management), work out of, work one s way out of …

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  • 8wriggle — wrig|gle1 [ˈrıgəl] v [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from Middle Low German wriggeln] 1.) to twist your body from side to side with small quick movements ▪ Stop wriggling and let me put your T shirt on. wriggle under/through/into ▪ He wriggled …

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  • 9wriggle — wrigglingly, adv. /rig euhl/, v., wriggled, wriggling, n. v.i. 1. to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm. 2. to move along by twisting and turning the body, as a worm or snake. 3. to make one s way by shifts or expedients (often fol. by out): to… …

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  • 10wriggle — wrig•gle [[t]ˈrɪg əl[/t]] v. gled, gling, n. 1) to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm 2) to move along by twisting and turning the body, as a worm or snake 3) to make one s way by shifts or expedients (often fol. by out): to wriggle out of a… …

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