hurry up the cakes

hurry up the cakes (third-person singular simple present hurries up the cakes, present participle hurrying up the cakes, simple past and past participle hurried up the cakes)

1. (US, dated, colloquial, chiefly imperative) Hurry up; get a move on.
   • 1862, The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 300:

     From the street-boy, who apostrophizes Government with a profanely sandwiched recommendation to 'hurry up the cakes,' up to the grave divine, who in his prayer for the President and Congress, of these mentally adds, […]