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get ready

Verb

Meaning

(transitive) To prepare; to make ready or prepared.
I'll get the tripod ready, and you find the camera.

(intransitive) To prepare; to make oneself prepared.
Get ready for the most thrilling experience of your life!

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. Grandma Moses

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. Linda M. Godwin

The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you! Louis Farrakhan

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. Charles Bukowski

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. Henry van Dyke

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