Usually means: Wake up and get moving.
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  1. show a leg: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. show a leg: Collins English Dictionary
  3. show a leg: Wiktionary

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  1. Show a leg: Idioms

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  1. show a leg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (show a leg)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, nautical, chiefly imperative) To wake up and get out of bed.

Similar:
rise, turn out, shake a leg, wake, make a leg, get on up, stretch one's legs, tumble up, have legs, look alive, more...

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rise, turn out, shake a leg, wake, make a leg, get on up, stretch one's legs, tumble up, have legs, look alive, more...



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