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rattle your dags

Hurry up; get a move on.

In a sentence

Rattle your dags or we’ll miss the train.

Where it came from

The Australian National Dictionary Centre records the Australian phrase from the 1980s and explains the sheep-dag imagery.

Initial era
1950–1999
Where used
Australia-wide

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