paint the wagon
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Etymology
Business jargon, based on the title song of the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, I'm on my way:
- Gotta dream boy
- Gotta song
- Paint your wagon
- And come along
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
paint the wagon (third-person singular simple present paints the wagon, present participle painting the wagon, simple past and past participle painted the wagon)
- (idiomatic) To get things done.
- John, you still haven’t closed that deal; you need to paint that wagon now!
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