raring to go

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Very eager to begin, as in The children were all dressed and raring to go. This idiom uses raring for rearing, and alludes to a horse's standing on its hind legs when it is anxious to get moving. [Early 1900s]

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How to use raring to go in a sentence

Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
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Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.
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The other songs go in to lesser percentages of “me” as you move along.
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At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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When the women came, he was preparing to go to the west side for his daily visit with Mrs. Pruitt.
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Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
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He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.
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