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I've also heard it to mean 'get to work'.
In my mind, and this could be way off, I had associated it with the old stick/carrot method of getting a mule to work. If he doesn't go for the carrot hanging in front of him make him run from the stick hitting him from behind.
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OK, so we seem to have the fact emerging that almost any human activity involving transport, from a donkey to a train or plane, seems to use a stick to control the speed...
I guess the general sense of "getting busy" may have no more specific origins than this confluence, then?
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