English Reference

Idiom

shit or get off the pot

Vulgar

Meaning

Act now or state one's disinterest, make a decision, particularly in contexts where one is inconveniencing others by inaction and indecision.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“You have been waiting for hours, so shit or get off the pot.”

“The team needs a final decision on the budget, so it is time to shit or get off the pot.”

“After weeks of vacillating over the merger, the board members were told to either shit or get off the pot.”

Examples

simple

“You have been waiting for hours, so shit or get off the pot.”

contextual

“The team needs a final decision on the budget, so it is time to shit or get off the pot.”

complex

“After weeks of vacillating over the merger, the board members were told to either shit or get off the pot.”

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