ready to roll

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.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ready to roll

(of a person or machine) fully prepared to start functioning or moving. informal
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ˌready to ˈroll

(informal) ready to start: The show is just about ready to roll.
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See also:
  • be ready to roll
  • raring
  • be raring to go
  • get ready
  • ready when you are
  • all set to go
  • make ready to (do something)
  • ready for prime time
  • rough-and-ready
  • (a little/bit) rough and ready
References in periodicals archive
"Ready to Roll icings are proving increasingly popular for both cake covering and as a modelling medium across a variety of skill levels, and so extending the range with both the new and improved colours means we are catering to even more professionals and home bakers."
Be it piggy-backing to a rise levee or packing into a decoy sled behind a 4-wheeler, these little duck hunters are always ready to roll.
Ready to roll: Dave Heeley, left, and his tandem pal Carl Moore.
THE latest versions of Mazda's popular supermini, the Mazda2, are ready to roll onto the roads of Britain with a wider choice of variants, new styling features, revised interior trim and a modified rear suspension system.
The company said it is ready to roll out now with 9MHz on the 1800 band and 4MHz on the 900 band.
Windsor Park is ready to roll out the red carpet, but for once let's have some common sense.
The company's NFL products are ready to roll and now include a cheerful nod to the holidays as well with wintery welcome mats joining the roster of logo rugs and broadloom and rugs patterned to look like actual playing fields.
IT was inevitable that Ireland's Caribbean heroics would leave their mark early in the county season, but they should be ready to roll now and are overpriced at to beat Gloucestershire today.
What better way to plan for those all-nighters than to have a handy arsenal of tees ready to roll as soon as you are.
This cart is full-factory assembled and ready to roll, and supports loads up to 400 pounds.
Today, 77 years of drafts, studies, proposals and an aborted construction attempt later, it appears that the long-delayed and much-needed project might finally be ready to roll.
We show the caddy configured for woodturning and ready to roll up to the lathe.
According to OSPIRG, the report, titled "Ready to Roll: The Benefits of Advanced Technology Vehicles for Oregon," identifies technologies ranging from such basic improvements as transmissions with more gears and more aerodynamic body designs to advanced engines that shut off half of their cylinders during highway driving.
The obituaries for Britain's most successful manager were penned and ready to roll. But the stubborn Scot galvanised a formidable performance from his side.
* Global Supply Chain Conference (GSCC) 2006 is ready to roll November 7-8.