step on it

phrase

: to increase one's speed : hurry up

You'd better step on it or we'll be late.

especially : to accelerate an automobile

The one in the back seat asked me what made me so sure I was having a heart attack. Very polite, I said I had had one before and knew what it was like. My wife, less polite, told them to step on it.

—Marvin Barrett

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for step on it

• candlelit
• counterfeit
• hypocrite
• monazite
• resubmit
• retrofit
• acquit
• admit
• amrit
• armpit
• backlit
• befit