AtD translation: getting his backside to the trackside

[Jochen Stremmel]

I'd say a less vulgar version of getting his ass in gear.

2018-05-06 9:15 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> P179.10-16   What in Creation could be going on up here, Lew couldn’t
> figure. He had a distinct, sleep-wrecking impression that he ought to just
> be getting his backside to the trackside, head on down to Denver, and not
> come up here again till it was all over. Whatever it was. It sure ‘s hell
> looked like war, and that must be what was keeping him here, he calculated,
> that possibility. Something like wanting to find out which side he was on
> without all these doubts. . . .
>
> What does "getting his backside to the trackside" mean exactly?
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