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get the lead out
Idioms and Phrases
Also, get the lead out of one's feet or pants . Hurry up, move faster. For example, Get the lead out of your pants, kids, or we'll be late , or, even more figuratively, Arthur is the slowest talker鈥攈e can't seem to get the lead out and make his point . This expression implies that lead, the heaviest of the base metals, is preventing one from moving. [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]Example Sentences
鈥淚t鈥檚 far past time to get the lead out once and for all,鈥 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said Wednesday. 鈥淭his is a matter of public health, a matter of environmental justice, and a matter of basic human rights.鈥
The Get the Lead Out assessment by the California Public Interest Research Group gave the state a 鈥淐鈥 grade this year for its 鈥渕iddling鈥 policies to protect kids from lead-contaminated drinking water at schools.
Currently, Lopez is working with the Get the Lead Out research project with Occidental College and the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
In April, two identical bipartisan bills 鈥 the Get the Lead Out of Assisted Housing Act of 2022 鈥 were introduced and stalled in the Senate and the House.
Congress should take the proposed $75 billion from the Build Back Better Act to fund and pass the Get the Lead Out of Assisted Housing Act to protect the health of our children.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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