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get ready

Idioms  
  1. Also, make ready. Become prepared or make preparations for something. For example, It'll take me another hour to get ready for the painter, or Jane promised to make the room ready for our guests. [Late 1500s] Also see get set.


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His feeds are full of upbeat "get ready with me" videos, posts unpacking shopping hauls, and clips in which he talks about his life as a gay teen.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

So should we all get ready to be shareholders in the AI companies that are sparking concerns about job losses?

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

WMO chief Celeste Saulo said the world needed to get ready for an El Nino which could "exacerbate drought and heavy rainfall and increase the risk of heatwaves both on land and in the ocean".

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Makeup and dressing rooms are being built in, for example, so stars don’t have to get ready in trailers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I try not to dwell on it too much as Elsie and I get ready, but that only leaves me to think about last night and that awful spell I used.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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