to make oneself/sb ready for use (idiom)

[barnej0096]

I need to find an idiom for a mening: to make oneself/sb ready for use. I can't come up with anything.

[Barb_D]

A person ready to be used? I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can you give an example?

[barnej0096]

I have a definition: make oneself/sb ready for use. And I have to find an idiom that fits to it.

[emsr2d2]

I have a definition: make oneself/sb ready for use. And I have to find an idiom that fits to it.

The definition doesn't make sense. If people don't make themselves ready for use, then we wouldn't have an idiom for it.

[BobK]

The definition doesn't make sense. If people don't make themselves ready for use, then we wouldn't have an idiom for it.

But ready for a particular use works: 'primed for action', 'ready for anything', 'up for it'...

(Sprinters refer to starting 'on the B of the bang')

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[emsr2d2]

I wouldn't class that as "somebody being ready for a particular use". Surely that's just "somebody being ready for something/to do something".

[BobK]

Yes, I was over-interpreting 'use'. A crossword-setter might think it needed a 'prop' ('somebody being ready for a particular purpose').

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