at the ready
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Pronunciation
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.
- The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy.
- The soldiers' rifles were at the ready.
- 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
- Her apartment is filled with evidence of a furiously busy creative life: […] a laptop perched on a crate atop the dining table; lyric revisions in notebooks on a music stand by an ever-at-the-ready guitar.
Translations
ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation
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