Get on the stick

Turkeyfoot · Dec 15, 2023

Do any of you remember the phrase ''Get on the stick''? My mother used to use it in various forms like: ''You better get on the stick or I'm gonna get on the stick''. It meant to get things done or to get busy. She grew up in eastern NC. It must have been a term from there because I've never heard it other than from her when I was growing up. I'm curious about how wide spread it may have been.

rrlund · Dec 15, 2023

Ya, I heard it up here in Michigan. Can't say but what I still do.

SweetFeet · Dec 15, 2023

Yah, also heardin da tropical part Minnesnowta... probably up nort' dere in MN, too.

Mike(NEOhio) · Dec 15, 2023

We used that some when I was in high school, mid 60s.

JD Dave · Dec 15, 2023

Ha! Yes that was a common expression around here when I was a teenager.

Turkeyfoot · Dec 15, 2023

Ooops. Meant to put this in Tales. For a moment I thought it got poofed. Haha.

db4600 · Dec 15, 2023

Likely a reference to control sticks in early aviation. Akin to Balls to the wall and The whole nine yards.
Possibly a reference to early automobile shifting but not a Model T.

showcrop · Dec 15, 2023

We used it in northern NH. Google says that it refers to getting your car going using the gear shift stick.

waugh621 · Dec 15, 2023

I have heard it used like that too, used
interchangably with floor it

oldproudvet · Dec 15, 2023

Common in Mn, growing up in the 40s.......

NDIHC · Dec 15, 2023

In NoDak too as a kid of the 70s/80s.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 16, 2023

what mama witch says to kids when they are getting ready to travel

Frank(Mi.) · Dec 16, 2023

(quoted from post at 13:44:32 12/15/23) Do any of you remember the phrase ''Get on the stick''? My mother used to use it in various forms like: ''You better get on the stick or I'm gonna get on the stick''. It meant to get things done or to get busy. She grew up in eastern NC. It must have been a term from there because I've never heard it other than from her when I was growing up. I'm curious about how wide spread it may have been.

Have heard it a few times around here. More common was "Get it in gear" or get yer' rear in gear"...

JohnRowehl · Dec 16, 2023

(quoted from post at 16:44:32 12/15/23) Do any of you remember the phrase ''Get on the stick''? My mother used to use it in various forms like: ''You better get on the stick or I'm gonna get on the stick''. It meant to get things done or to get busy. She grew up in eastern NC. It must have been a term from there because I've never heard it other than from her when I was growing up. I'm curious about how wide spread it may have been.

Commonly heard growing up, southeast NYS. Generally meant get to work.

Steve@Advance · Dec 16, 2023

I remember hearing it some in my younger days.

Always knew it meant get busy or get serious with whatever I was supposed to be doing.

I don't know where it came from, but I envisioned it was referring to possibly a broom stick, or maybe even a hockey stick.

Crazy Horse · Dec 16, 2023

'Git yer arse in gear' was more common around my house growing up.

paul · Dec 16, 2023

Get it in gear was more common, but Ive heard stick as well.

Paul

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