step on it

1. Hurry up, go faster, as in Step on it or we are going to be late. This idiom alludes to stepping on a vehicle's gas pedal. [Colloquial; c. 1920]

Example Sentences

"The back of the bus looked like someone had actually stepped on it - it had been crushed down and the roof was almost gone."

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“It’s a place that is gonna be totally public, so everybody can go in and step on it,” she said.

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“You would probably step on it and not even realize it.”

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When he steps on it, and you go along for the thrill of it.

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He pointed the BBC to the spot where Hire Kami was found gasping for life and asked people not to step on it.

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