booted+and+spurred
21provided — Synonyms and related words: according as, accoutered, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, catered, coached, cocked, endowed, equipped, familiarized, fitted, fitted out, furnished, good and ready, groomed,… …
22psyched up — Synonyms and related words: all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, coached, cocked, equipped, familiarized, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, loaded, loaded …
23ready — Synonyms and related words: Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, about, accessible, accordant, acquiescent, active, acute, adaptable, adept, adjusted, adroit, affirmative, agape, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, alert, alive, all… …
24ripe — Synonyms and related words: accomplished, adult, age, aged, all ready, all set, appropriate, apt, archetypical, armed, armed and ready, auspicious, befitting, blase, booted and spurred, briefed, classic, coached, cocked, complete, consummate,… …
25up in arms — Synonyms and related words: against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, at cross purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at feud, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at square, at strife, at… …
26vigilant — Synonyms and related words: Argus eyed, acute, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, attentive, aux aguets, avid, booted and spurred, briefed, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, coached, cocked, covering …
27preparation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of preparing Nouns 1. preparation, preparing; providing; provision, providence, pre arrangement, anticipation, foresight, forethought; precaution, predisposition; plan; rehearsal; training, education …
28up in arms — 1. Stirring, bustling, at work, astir, up and doing. 2. Alert, ready, on the alert, vigilant, prepared, wide awake, in readiness, booted and spurred, in harness. 3. At daggers drawn …
29primed — adj 1. ready, ready for anything, ready to go, all ready, good and ready, in readiness, set, all set, prepared, Inf. prepped, Sl. loaded for bear; in the sad die, booted and spurred, Inf. itching or dying to get started, Inf. rarin to go, Inf.… …
30a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on — The speed with which falsehood travels was a classical commonplace; e.g. VIRGIL Aeneid iv. 174 Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius alium, Rumour, than whom no other evil thing is faster. This whole passage was imitated by Shakespeare in the… …
