I just had a friend explain to me that to ‘pull your finger out’, meaning to hurry yourself up, apparently has a military origin to do with canons. This… was not at all consistent with my own highly-specifically backside-oriented mental model.
I just had a friend explain to me that to ‘pull your finger out’, meaning to hurry yourself up, apparently has a military origin to do with canons. This… was not at all consistent with my own highly-specifically backside-oriented mental model.