AtD translation: getting his backside to the trackside

[Mike Jing]

Gotcha. Thanks, Jochen.


On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 3:40 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd say a less vulgar version of getting his ass in gear.
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> 2018-05-06 9:15 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
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>> 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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