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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!"
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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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Pulled up a rei

having an idea/s on taking over a certain gfx collab/s.
ex:

Tsuga : Hey, Kuraii how's the collab with Kuma
Kuraii: i don't know man. He pulled up a rei and did all the gfx on his own.
by r_xce May 25, 2021
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Pulling up your socks

The act of visiting the rest room, for the explicit purpose of a ancle gripping defecation. Specifically dropping ones pants to the floor, allowing clear and unimpeded access to ones "socks".
"After eating gas station sushi, you're going to be pulling up your socks."

"Jennifer has ben pulling up her socks all afternoon?"

"After tacos and cerveza that bad, Ryan will be pulling your socks up."
by the Mixican Joker November 21, 2024
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georgian pull-up

The act of spraying Taco Bell hot sauce into your roomate’s underpants, causing such an intense burning that he jumps into the sky.
Oh no! I think jimbo cajington seemed to have done the ‘ol Georgian pull-up again! My sphincter feels like a fresh Doritos loco taco!
by Clondike ravenport February 21, 2018
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