- roll up your sleeves
- Roll up your sleevesIf you roll up your sleeves, you get ready to start working hard.
The small dictionary of idiomes. 2014.
roll up your sleeves
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roll up your sleeves — informal : to prepare to work hard It s time to roll up our sleeves and get the job done. Congress needs to roll up its sleeves and pass the bill now. • • • Main Entry: ↑roll roll up your sleeves see ↑roll, 1 • • • Main Entry … Useful english dictionary
roll up your sleeves — roll up (your) sleeves to prepare for hard work. After the election, the mayor rolled up his sleeves and began immediately to put his promises into action. Etymology: based on the idea that people often literally roll up their sleeves before… … New idioms dictionary
roll your sleeves up — roll (your) sleeves up to prepare for hard work. Our local team need to roll their sleeves up and put a bit more effort into their football … New idioms dictionary
roll up sleeves — roll up (your) sleeves to prepare for hard work. After the election, the mayor rolled up his sleeves and began immediately to put his promises into action. Etymology: based on the idea that people often literally roll up their sleeves before… … New idioms dictionary
roll — roll1 [ roul ] verb *** ▸ 1 move while turning ▸ 2 move on wheels ▸ 3 move from side to side ▸ 4 change direction faced ▸ 5 move across surface ▸ 6 wrap something around itself ▸ 7 produce long low sound ▸ 8 machine: work ▸ 9 make substance flat… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
roll up one's sleeves — When you roll up your sleeves, you get ready for hard work. The house was in a mess after the party so we had to roll up our sleeves and start cleaning … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
roll down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms roll down : present tense I/you/we/they roll down he/she/it rolls down present participle rolling down past tense rolled down past participle rolled down 1) if you roll a car window down, you turn a handle or… … English dictionary
roll up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you roll up your sleeves or trouser legs, you fold the ends back several times, making them shorter. → See also rolled up [V P n (not pron)] The jacket was too big for him so he rolled up the cuffs... [V n P] Walking in the… … English dictionary
roll sleeves up — roll (your) sleeves up to prepare for hard work. Our local team need to roll their sleeves up and put a bit more effort into their football … New idioms dictionary
roll — roll1 W3S1 [rəul US roul] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(round object)¦ 2¦(person/animal)¦ 3¦(shape of tube/ball)¦ 4¦(make something flat)¦ 5¦(clothes)¦ 6¦(something with wheels)¦ 7¦(drop of liquid)¦ 8¦(waves/clouds)¦ 9¦(game)¦ 10¦( … Dictionary of contemporary English
