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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.
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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