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be industrious/diligent/assiduous
vs
get one's finger out
be industrious/diligent/assiduous
get one's finger out
verb
To proceed with the matter in hand.
How often have the words
be industrious/diligent/assiduous
and
get one's finger out
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)