ready to roll

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ready to roll

1. Eager and prepared to take action. I'm ready to roll! Let's start painting.

2. Ready to leave a certain place. You ready to roll, bro? I gotta be home by midnight.

ready to roll

(of a person or machine) fully prepared to start functioning or moving. informal

ˌready to ˈroll

(informal) ready to start: The show is just about ready to roll.

See also: ready, roll

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The obituaries for Britain's most successful manager were penned and ready to roll.

Football: Ferguson defiant

ROLLING OUT Owners of Losmandy GM-8 equatorial mounts can keep their telescopes fully set up and ready to roll out of the garage or shed for a night's observing with ScopeRoller 8.

Rolling out

Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen Media Research's vice president, product line manager, said, "We need a huge amount of information ready to roll whenever our clients request it.

CLARIION SAN PROVIDES CENTRALIZED INFORMATION STORAGE

So roll up your sleeves and get ready to roll up your tortilla.

Tortilla with a twist. (Right Stuff)

For equity funds, with a cap of $200,000, we are last in, and invest whenever the film is ready to roll.

The Harold Greenberg Fund. (Industry)

Musicland was just about ready to roll with Linux when they were purchased by Best Buy, a Windows NT shop.

LINUX BASED POS TERMINALS INCREASE 80% IN 2001

Winter is just around the corner, and Langnese is ready to roll out holiday treats.

Langnese gets ready for winter with seasonal ice cream treats. (Ice Cream Scoops)

The Danish shipping line and port operator had its team and equipment ready to roll in Uruguay but local companies lobbied the courts and politicians to overturn the bid decisions.

Box Populi

The cart is delivered ready to roll with no assembly required and the quality workmanship is backed with a lifetime guarantee.

Labconco's Stainless Steel Cart Provides Easy Equipment Transfer from Countertop to Cart

A full-scale, non-functioning model of a truck cab--with pink windshield wipers and a turquoise body--pulls a septic tank and water tank on wheels, as if ready to roll in a nomadic trance from suburbia to the promised land.

Kim Adams

According to manufacturing applications manager James Baum, the company now has a Pro/Engineer version running under Windows NT ready to roll as soon as Microsoft introduces the new operating system.

Improved design & engineering software debuts at design show

STORM ROCK is ready to roll in the Betway Lincoln (2.

ROCK STAR; Storm can blow Lincoln rivals away in Flat curtain-raiser

Renshaw, has expanded its range of Ready to Roll Icing Multipacks to include two new varieties - Neons and Naturals.

Renshaw rolls out its colour collection

BRING OUT BIG GUNS Get ready to roll across three different regions

Boom! Tanks; *** FREE

Staff at the school, on Little Green Lane, loved the idea and, after convincing businesses and the council to help fund the plan, the allotment is virtually ready to roll.