You probably know this phrase. I know this phrase, and while it is useful, being a well known idiom that succinctly and politely conveys the necessity of getting your shit together, I cannot take it seriously. Because whenever I hear or think of this phrase, all I can think of is an exasperated farmer, trying in vain to rally a gaggle of ducklings into an orderly line. His stereotypical wheat stem, once proudly erect, droops sadly from his mouth as he duckling wreak havoc over his barn yard. They are every where. Theyâre are so many. They are rising up, an unstoppable force of renegade ducklings, ready to fight and die for, what they believe , is just. One of them is wearing a leather jacket. And you know what?