how to say “to roll up your sleeves” in Hebrew

 

לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים

 

 
When there’s work to do, we call it “rolling up our sleeves” to “get our hands dirty,” in English.
 
The Hebrew expression for rolling up (the) sleeves is לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים listen and repeat, where להפשיל means to roll up or to roll back (source in Mishnaic Hebrew, probably from Aramaic) and שַׁרְווּל  listen and repeat means sleeve.
 
For example:
 
הַבְּחִירוֹת מִתְקָרְבוֹת, וְהַיְּרִיבִים מַפְשִׁילִים אֶת הַשַׁרְווּלִים.
Elections are approaching, and the opponents are rolling up their sleeves.

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