Shit or get off the pot
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'''"Shit or get off the pot"''' is a common [[English language]] [[expression]], used to urge someone to complete a task with a greater degree of efficiency or timeliness than is observed at the time the expression is used.
==Derivation==
It may derive from the time before indoor plumbing when a [[chamber pot]] was used for defecation. The expression, in this way, is essentially instruction for someone to stop being indecisive and act. [[Stuart Berg Flexner|Stuart Flexner]], author of "I Hear America Talking", states that it is a vulgar rephrasing of the old [[New England]] expression "fish or cut bait."
==Famous Uses==
*[[Richard Nixon]] reportedly used the phrase while berating [[Dwight Eisenhower]] to put Nixon on his presidential ticket.
==Uses in popular culture==
*In the 1994 film ''[[Clerks.]]'', [[Randal Graves|Randal]] uses the phrase to tell his friend [[Dante Hicks|Dante]] to make a decision regarding his present situation.
*In the 1999 film ''[[The Bachelor]]'', Jimmie uses the phrase when asking Anne to marry him.
*In the episode [[Local Ad]] of the US TV series [[The Office (US TV Series)|''The Office]], [[Meredith Palmer|Meredith]] uses the phrase "piss or get off the pot" to tell [[Jim Halpert|Jim]] to hurry up.
[[Category:English phrases]]