pull your socks upespecially British EnglishBrE informalIMPROVE to make an effort to improve your behaviour or your work 努力,用功 If they want promotion, United have got to pull their socks up. 如果联队想要升级,那就得好好努力。
pull your socks up• You're not exactly a young lad any more so you've got to pull your socks up.• Maybe we needed to pull our socks up and we are trying to do just that.• With 16 games to go Oxford have still got time to pull their socks up.
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