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Discover LudwigThe phrase "arse along" is not standard in written English and may be considered informal or slang.
It can be used in casual conversation or informal writing, often to suggest moving or progressing in a lazy or unenthusiastic manner.
Example: "He just sat there, telling me to arse along instead of helping with the project."
Alternatives: "drag your feet" or "lollygag".
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Well, if you're Gary Lineker, the greasy-thighed golden child of English football, you don't have to imagine, because in a now-infamous clip from England's opening match of the 1990 World Cup against Ireland, you can see him shuffling his arse along the ground while trying his best to disguise the warm flow of gut flora seeping between the material of his underwear and his warm upper leg.
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The version of his youth that Amis gives us here is a fleshed-out reincarnation of the narcissist he described briefly in Experience, "short-arseing along the King's Road" in green velvet flares, sending letters to Kingsley that concluded "Kafka is a fucking fool" or "Middlemarch is fucking good".
Along with ARSE, the SHOX genes provide an intriguing correlation with the skeletal phenotype of ATR-X patients, and future work should address whether these genes are regulated by ATRX in humans.
"And," I ask, "what did Warren do to deserve a kick up the arse?" "Um, I have to move Warren along a little bit.
If Jack Irish has a kick-arse ending or spectacularly ratchets up tension as it moves along, it would be nice to let people know about it – likewise if the ballooned format begins to wane.
I worked my arse off but I had lots of fun along the way".
Gary Barlow might have thought he was doing David Cameron an enormous favour by hovering his tornado-sized charisma void over the Conservative campaign in 2010, but the scale of Barlow's tax avoidance has repeatedly come along to kick Cameron in the arse in the years since then.
Everything is functional, songs selected for maximum sing-along value, records picked purely because you can easily shake your arse to them.
Just when you think something is OK and dare you happen to mention it publicly then along comes Sod and bites you on the arse.
Guys with their arms around each other sing along to "Wonderwall", pissed on Stella, as a pink spotlight illuminates a dancer's arse.
"Lick arse, lick arse".
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