get set

Idioms and Phrases

Prepare to go, as in Get set; the taxi's coming . This phrase is also a synonym for get ready . Also see under all set .

Example Sentences

Sharon — who met her husband at a summer theater program — saw this as an opening: They’d get set up in California and use the movie as leverage to get Keke more work.

From Los Angeles Times

If an evacuation order means “go,” an evacuation warning is the equivalent of “get set.”

From Los Angeles Times

Can he give himself the chance to get set at the crease?

From BBC

“The people in charge don’t want to get fired more so than they’re looking to do something great, so they want to kind of follow a set of rules that somehow get set in stone, that don’t really translate,” Vaughn said.

From Salon

On your mark, get set . . . celibacy?

From Salon

Related Words

• arrange
• brace
• equip
• fit
• fix
• gird
• provide
• warm up