British & Australian, very informal if you tell someone to get their finger out, you mean they should start working hard.
You'd better pull your finger out, you should have finished this job hours ago.
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get (one's) finger out
To stop dawdling or procrastinating. Primarily heard in UK. Come on, Tom, pull your finger out and start working on that report already!A: "Did you finish your paper?" B: "Yeah, I finally pulled my finger out and got it done."
get (or pull) your finger out
cease prevaricating and start to act. British informal