set to do
set to
1. adjective Prepared or ready to begin or undertake something. Is everyone set to eat? We have our legal team set to draw up contracts whenever you are ready.
2. verb To prepare or begin doing or undertaking something, especially with energy or enthusiasm. After the Christmas break, we set to drafting up a new plan for our next project. Sarah is setting to earn her law degree next year.
3. To begin fighting. The two dogs snarled at one another before setting two right there on the sidewalk. The two students were brought to the principal's office after they set to over an insult during recess.
See also: set
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*set to do something
ready to do something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I'm all set to go. Are you ready? We are set to leave at a moment's notice.
See also: set
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- set to
- set about
- set about (doing something)
- set about doing
- get (all) set
- get set
- be, look, etc. set
- be (all) set (to do something)
- all set
- set