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pull your socks up

A term used to tell someone to get down because bullets are going to be fired in their general direction in the immediate future. The general idea behind wording the phrase this way is to let your friend know what is about to happen whilest leaving your helpless, soon to be, victims in the dark.

Used by Bullet-Toothed Tony in the movie "Snatch"
"Avi, pull your socks up!"
by hopeagnsthope313 September 28, 2006
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pull yourself up by your boot straps

literally referring to what Abraham Lincoln (read a few law books he found in a junk barrel, then became a lawyer and later President of The United States and Booker T Washington (learned to read and write as a black apprentice sailor) actually did, this term means:

to legally work, or rather legally to nigger, one's way up the social ladder of one's society in one's zeitgeist using nothing but one's own blood, sweat, toil, common sense, education and street-smarts
son: I don't understand how Abraham Lincoln legally achieved what he did. He was born on a bloody farm.

father: Jordan, just stop blabbering and learn the meaning of the phrase to pull yourself up by your boot straps and you'll do just as well. Now good night.
by Sexydimma May 18, 2012
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Pull the bars up on the crib

And expression used to signify the intention of taking a long nap.
"Man, when I get outta class I am gonna get some chinese food with extra MSG and pull the bars up on the crib."
by Chris Giarraputo December 9, 2004
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pulling up with big dicks

the act of going somewhere and being the fucking man.
“we going to be pulling up with big dicks at the party
by yungcashfuckingcarti May 3, 2018
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Pull up

On dating a girl and she lets you know where you stand with her
That’s how you pull up?
by anonymous September 20, 2021
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Pull the plow up

Phrase calling out inadequacy in a persons performance, most often while running.

Stems from the ancient practice of plowing fields where farmers found greater speeds when pulling the plow shallower in the ground.
Pull the plow up and finish the marathon in less than 3 hours you slow bastard!
by embarrassedforyou October 9, 2020
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