Definition of ‘to pull your socks up’
If you tell someone to pull their socks up, you mean that they should start working or studying harder, because they have been lazy or careless. [British, informal]
What does it mean to keep your socks on?
keep (one’s) socks on
To remain patient and calm, especially when beginning to become angry or upset with impatience. Usually said as an imperative. Yeah, yeah, keep your socks on!
What does it mean to have one sock up?
Make an effort to improve one’s work, performance, or behavior.
What does pull up mean?
intransitive verb. 1a : to check oneself. b : to come to an often abrupt halt : stop. 2 : to draw even with others in a race. Synonyms Example Sentences Learn More About pull-up.
What does it mean to give a leg up?
Definition of give someone a leg up
1 : to hold one’s hands together so that someone can step into them while climbing up onto something I don’t think I can get on this horse without help.
What does the saying When Pigs Fly mean?
Definition of when pigs fly
—used to say that one thinks that something will never happen The train station will be renovated when pigs fly.
What is the idiom bite the bullet?
to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation. The same stressful event might make one person utterly miserable, while another will bite the bullet and make the best of it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary.
What are prepositional idioms?
Prepositional idioms are phrases where the meaning is determined by the choice of preposition. As with the idiomatic expressions we have looked at in the past, there is no “rule” for which prepositional idiom is correct in a given situation.
What does it mean when you sock someone?
When you sock someone, it has nothing to do with footwear; you punch them. If something “knocks your socks off,” it makes you extremely enthusiastic or excited, and if your brother tells you to “put a sock in it,” he means “be quiet.”
