hot to trot

1. Ready and willing, eager. For example, We should let them start putting up posters; they're hot to trot .

2. Sexually avid, lascivious, as in He's hot to trot and asked her out almost as soon as he met her . Both slangy usages allude to a horse eager to get going.

Example Sentences

“We were hot to trot,” said Mr. Bullard, now 90 and living in Dartmouth, Mass.

From New York Times

I haven’t exactly been hot to trot for quite a while.

From Washington Post

Tree crickets are hot to trot for only a couple of hours each evening.

From New York Times

But then he made Hot to Trot, a film about a talking horse and everything fell apart.

From The Guardian

So, you’re related to a military commander in al-Qaeda, you rent the house for the bomb factory, you’re seen around it new test positive for explosives, and so as we’ve seen, ripping up papers sirens hot to trot to lock these guys up.

From MSNBC

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