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paint the wagon

paint the wagon verb: to get things done.

Verb

paint the wagon (third-person singular simple present paints the wagon, present participle painting the wagon, simple past and past participle painted the wagon)

  1. (idiomatic) To get things done.
    • John, you still haven’t closed that deal; you need to paint that wagon now!

paint the wagon meaning in Bengali

paint the wagon in Bengali

কাজ সম্পন্ন করা

Forms of paint the wagon

third-person singular presentpaints the wagon
present participlepainting the wagon
past participlepainted the wagon
pastpainted the wagon

Origin of paint the wagon

Business jargon, based on the title song of the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, I'm on my wayhttp://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/paintyourwagon/paintyourwagonimonmyway.htm: : Gotta dream boy : Gotta song : Paint your wagon : And come along

Questions about paint the wagon

What does paint the wagon mean?
Paint the wagon means to get things done.
What is paint the wagon in Bengali?
Paint the wagon in Bengali is কাজ সম্পন্ন করা. See Paint the wagon meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is paint the wagon?
Paint the wagon is a verb.
What is the past tense of paint the wagon?
The past tense of paint the wagon is painted the wagon.

Words near paint the wagon in the dictionary

  1. paint stripper
  2. paint strippers
  3. paint the tape
  4. paint the town
  5. paint the town red
  6. paint the wagon
  7. paint thinner
  8. paint thinners
  9. paint up
  10. paint with a broad brush
  11. paint with a wide brush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paint the wagon (page history and authors); paint the wagon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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