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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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Some are wrapped up in scarves and woolly hats, while others are sat in deckchairs, eating picnic lunches and playing music as they get ready to watch the chart-topping singer Raye in action.

From BBC

Get ready for Round 2, coming soon to a court near you.

From Barron's

And I have a teenager to get ready for school that we’re always all waiting on.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, Imran told her husband, 63-year-old Adel, and her youngest daughter, Duaa, 16, to get ready.

From Los Angeles Times

Get ready for more portfolio diversity talk after famed investor Stanley Druckenmiller just schooled investors with a lucrative bet on Brazil.

From MarketWatch

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