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单词 good ready
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good ready
b. U.S. colloquial. With modifying adjective, as good ready, big ready. The condition of being (well) prepared to enter into a course of action; (also) an act of preparation. Chiefly in to get a good ready: to become fully prepared, to get a good start. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > assume favourable position for starting
to get a good ready1852
1852 E. A. McAuley Jrnl. 19 May in K. H. Holmes Covered Wagon Women (1997) IV. 47 We have now got a good ‘ready’ and this morning made a fresh start.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 71 A time hardly long enough for a century plant to get a good ready for blossoming.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi li. 500 I was on the bench of the pilot-house when we..‘straightened up’ for the start—the boat pausing for a ‘good ready’, in the old-fashioned way.
1897 A. H. Lewis Wolfville i. 2 So we begins to draw in our belts an' get a big ready.
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