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What's meant by "it's time they got the motor lifted off me." in the following context from "The Big Money" by Dos Passos:
Time: 1920s
Location: a trial air field in Detroit
Charley, the American ace pilot in WW1, has developed a new plane motor. He has had a crash while trying to fly his plane, equipped with his own motor.
What's meant by "it's time they got the motor lifted off me." in the following context from "The Big Money" by Dos Passos:
Time: 1920s
Location: a trial air field in Detroit
Charley, the American ace pilot in WW1, has developed a new plane motor. He has had a crash while trying to fly his plane, equipped with his own motor.
In the ambulance he tried to ask the man in the white jacket about Bill and to remember back exactly what had happened, but the leg kept him too busy trying not to yell. "Hay, doc," he managed to croak, "can't you get these aluminum splinters out of my side? the damn ship must have turned turtle on them. Wing couldn't take it maybe, but it's time they got the motor lifted off me. Hay, doc, why can't they get a move on?"