all set
all set
Prepared, ready, or primed to begin or complete a task at hand. Once I iron my shirt, I'll be all set for the date tonight.
See also: all, set
set
slang In community card poker, a hand containing two cards that have the same face value as one of the cards on the board following the flop. I had been bluffing when I raised my bet with just a pair of aces, but luckily the flop revealed an ace that gave me a set.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*(all) set
(to do something) prepared or ready to do something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) Are you set to cook the steaks? Yes, the fire is ready, and I'm all set to start.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
all set
Ready, in position for some action, as in I'm all set to leave the country. This colloquial term uses set in the sense of "put in proper position or order." The same meaning appears in the traditional Ready, get set, go for starting a race; here set means "in position to start."
See also: all, set
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
set
1. n. a period of time that a band plays without a break; a thirty-minute jam session. We do two sets and then take a twenty-minute break.
2. n. a party. Your set was a totally major bash!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- set
- set about
- set about (doing something)
- set about doing
- set to
- set to do
- get (all) set
- get set
- be (all) set (to do something)
- set (one's) hand to