Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Exdigitate (Mil. slang)
English answer:
Pull your finger out
Added to glossary by
Mårten Engelberg
Oct 8, 2004 22:45
19 yrs ago
English term
Switzerland
Native in: Swedish (Variant: Scanian / skånska) 
Works in: English to Swedish, German to Swedish, Japanese to Swedish, and 2 more.
Exdigitate
English
Other
Military / Defense
"Japs gone. Exdigitate."
Am I on the right track: Engage, intervene, move in...?
Responses
| 3 +7 | pull your finger out |
chica nueva
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| 5 +3 | COMMENT (not for grading) |
Tony M
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| 5 +2 | GYFOOYA => get your finger out (of your ass) => get a move on |
airmailrpl
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| 4 +1 | trial run result of the CRM model |
Michael Powers (PhD)
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| 4 -1 | Intervene |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| 2 -1 | disband |
Johanne Bouthillier
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| 1 -1 | link |
Ioana Costache
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Responses
+7
1 hr
chica nueva
Native in English
&
English
http://youtube/iraVWQu3Zf8
Native in: English (Variants: British, New Zealand)
Works in: Chinese to English
Related KudoZ points
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4
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pull your finger out
pull/get your finger out (UK informal) = to start working hard, especially after a period of low activity eg She's really going to have to pull her finger out if she wants to finish before Friday.
(You have to know this idiom to get it.)
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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 37 mins (2004-10-10 02:22:51 GMT)
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in this country, sometimes shortened to \'pull finger\'eg We\'ll have to pull finger if we are going to get there in time.
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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 38 mins (2004-10-10 02:24:21 GMT)
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Fishing Charters
... has suddenly gone deaf and isn\'t able to help me...so single-handed I get the net
and the \'beast\' is caught and boated...come on Bazza..pull finger..do I have ...
www.seatours.co.nz/Fishing.html - 41k - 8 Oct 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
Nanocides Photos
... To bad I wasted it down Glenside Road Johnsonville!!. Heaps more pictures
to get displayed on this site will do so when I pull finger.
home.clear.net.nz/pages/nanocide/photo.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
(You have to know this idiom to get it.)
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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 37 mins (2004-10-10 02:22:51 GMT)
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in this country, sometimes shortened to \'pull finger\'eg We\'ll have to pull finger if we are going to get there in time.
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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs 38 mins (2004-10-10 02:24:21 GMT)
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Fishing Charters
... has suddenly gone deaf and isn\'t able to help me...so single-handed I get the net
and the \'beast\' is caught and boated...come on Bazza..pull finger..do I have ...
www.seatours.co.nz/Fishing.html - 41k - 8 Oct 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
Nanocides Photos
... To bad I wasted it down Glenside Road Johnsonville!!. Heaps more pictures
to get displayed on this site will do so when I pull finger.
home.clear.net.nz/pages/nanocide/photo.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
nlingua
2 hrs
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| agree |
Tony M
: Yes, of course --- it means "get a darned move on!" // "hurry up!"
6 hrs
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| agree |
David Sirett
8 hrs
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| agree |
awilliams
8 hrs
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| agree |
sonja29 (X)
14 hrs
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| agree |
Kevin Kelly
21 hrs
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| agree |
airmailrpl
: -
3 days 8 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Wonderful! Many many thanks:)"
+1
9 mins
Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
United States
Native in English
&
English
United States
US Court Cert. 1980 Ph.D. 1981
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
trial run result of the CRM model
Mike :)
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Note added at 9 mins (2004-10-08 22:55:37 GMT)
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See the following explanation. The reference will follow.
I suggest saving the time of the general public, parliaments, trade unions, special interests, oppressed minorities, and world-saving bomber pilots by means of an American Imperial/NATO Cliche and Rationale Maker (it slices, it dices, it never tells the truth). In its simplest form the CRM consists of three columns. The first consists of noun phrases like \"Secretary Albright and Sandy Berger,\" \"Starkravian Freedom Fighters,\" \"Free world leaders,\" \"Neo-fascist particularists,\" \"UNSCUM,\" and so forth. The second column contains limp verbs – impersonal and passive: \"were launched,\" \"were encountered,\" \"was said by,\" \"were made,\" \"was learned today,\" etc. The third column has all the direct objects, passive subjects (so to speak), dodgy and dishonest modifiers, and the rest.
One has to be very careful in building such a program. Trial-runs of one program produced unfortunate sentences like \"Secretary Albright and Sandy Berger/ were precipitated/ into the hands of the KLA\" and headlines such as \"NATO peace-keepers fail to exdigitate while Kosovo burns.\" Well, all I can say is that mistakes \"were made\" – \"by parties unknown.\" I hope those working on the CRM get it together before we suffer the indignity of seeing headlines such as \"Kosovo Quagmire Deepens, Clinton Says \'What Me Worry?\'\"
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Note added at 9 mins (2004-10-08 22:55:37 GMT)
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See the following explanation. The reference will follow.
I suggest saving the time of the general public, parliaments, trade unions, special interests, oppressed minorities, and world-saving bomber pilots by means of an American Imperial/NATO Cliche and Rationale Maker (it slices, it dices, it never tells the truth). In its simplest form the CRM consists of three columns. The first consists of noun phrases like \"Secretary Albright and Sandy Berger,\" \"Starkravian Freedom Fighters,\" \"Free world leaders,\" \"Neo-fascist particularists,\" \"UNSCUM,\" and so forth. The second column contains limp verbs – impersonal and passive: \"were launched,\" \"were encountered,\" \"was said by,\" \"were made,\" \"was learned today,\" etc. The third column has all the direct objects, passive subjects (so to speak), dodgy and dishonest modifiers, and the rest.
One has to be very careful in building such a program. Trial-runs of one program produced unfortunate sentences like \"Secretary Albright and Sandy Berger/ were precipitated/ into the hands of the KLA\" and headlines such as \"NATO peace-keepers fail to exdigitate while Kosovo burns.\" Well, all I can say is that mistakes \"were made\" – \"by parties unknown.\" I hope those working on the CRM get it together before we suffer the indignity of seeing headlines such as \"Kosovo Quagmire Deepens, Clinton Says \'What Me Worry?\'\"
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Alexander Demyanov
: http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=3327
2 mins
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Thank you, Alexander - Mike :)
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| agree |
Ioana Costache
: yes, came across the same bit of text, see infra
12 mins
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Thank you, Ioana - Mike :)
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| neutral |
chica nueva
: fail to pull their finger out
1 hr
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| disagree |
Tony M
: Nicely satirical article, but not the MEANING of Asker's word; as Lesley has pointed out, this is a humorous made-up word meaning "get your finger out!"
8 hrs
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-1
19 mins
Johanne Bouthillier
Canada
Canada
Canada
English to Canadian French translator
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian)
Works in: English to French
disband
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Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Tony M
: Sorry, but this is a humorous made-up word meaning "get your finger out!"
8 hrs
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-1
19 mins
Ioana Costache
Romania
Romania
Romania
Degrees in linguistics & clinical trials
Native in: Romanian (Variant: Romania)
Works in: English to Romanian, Romanian to English
link
sorry, unable to come up with anything better than this. how about "cut off their fingers" or "remove numbers"? just joking :)
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Tony M
: Sorry, but this is a humorous made-up word meaning "get your finger out!"
8 hrs
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-1
3 hrs
Intervene
It makes sense in the context. The sort of word you would come across in an article in The Economist as their journalists always use terms no one else has ever heard of! If I was in the US I would phone The White House and ask for the translating department, politely explaining why OR the UN.
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Tony M
: Sorry, but this is a humorous made-up word meaning "get your finger out!"
5 hrs
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+3
9 hrs
COMMENT (not for grading)
Lesley's got it right -- it means 'get a move on!', 'hurry up!' and various other more vulgar versions of the same thing.
And I can confirm that this is WW II army slang -- there was at one time a vogue for making up 'official-sounding' words based on rude slang --- and if they sounded like Latin, so much the better!
I've never known, though, if it is US or BE slang.
'Getting your finger out' is an obvious (well, to me, anyway!) reference to stopping 'sitting on your hands' and taking some kind of decisive action...
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If it was painted on the roof, it was presumably a message to the Air Force: \"Hurry up and get us out of here!\"
And I can confirm that this is WW II army slang -- there was at one time a vogue for making up 'official-sounding' words based on rude slang --- and if they sounded like Latin, so much the better!
I've never known, though, if it is US or BE slang.
'Getting your finger out' is an obvious (well, to me, anyway!) reference to stopping 'sitting on your hands' and taking some kind of decisive action...
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Note added at 9 hrs 5 mins (2004-10-09 07:50:53 GMT)
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If it was painted on the roof, it was presumably a message to the Air Force: \"Hurry up and get us out of here!\"
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
airmailrpl
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24 mins
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Thanks, Airmail!
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| agree |
awilliams
1 hr
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Thanks, AW!
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| agree |
nlingua
11 hrs
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Thanks, Nlingua!
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+2
9 hrs
airmailrpl
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
English
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
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GYFOOYA => get your finger out (of your ass) => get a move on
Results 1 - 30 of about 59 English pages for "get your finger out of your ass".
GYFOOYA => get your finger out (of your ass) => get a move on
Heard quite often in the USA Military
Exclamations, Crudity & Insults (Rough Slang)
... expression of astonishment ("well, bugger me backwards!) get your finger out (of your ass??) get a move on, get going getting your oats getting laid (sexual ...
www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/vocab/node5.html
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... reply needed in regards to potential shopping trip!!! IE ..... GYFOOYA (Get your finger out of your ass). Leave a Comment. Basic HTML Tags are allowed. ...
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GYFOOYA => get your finger out (of your ass) => get a move on
Heard quite often in the USA Military
Exclamations, Crudity & Insults (Rough Slang)
... expression of astonishment ("well, bugger me backwards!) get your finger out (of your ass??) get a move on, get going getting your oats getting laid (sexual ...
www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/vocab/node5.html
Scam City version 7.0 › Promoting Firefox
... reply needed in regards to potential shopping trip!!! IE ..... GYFOOYA (Get your finger out of your ass). Leave a Comment. Basic HTML Tags are allowed. ...
www.scamcity.co.uk/journal/index.php?p=359
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