Meaning of at the ready | Babel Free

Definitions

Ready; in a state of preparation or waiting; in position or anticipation.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy.”

“The soldiers' rifles were at the ready.”

“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.”

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