raring
/ˈrɛːrɪŋ
/adjective [with infinitive] informal
Very enthusiastic and eager to do something: she was raring to get back to her work I’ll be ready and raring to go...
- Early next morning found the Talbots eager like frisky children raring to get started in their adventure.
- But he is now ready and raring to guide Leigh through their first-ever season in the elite division.
- A gulf War veteran said troops would be ready and raring to go if there is another conflict.
Synonyms
eager, keen, enthusiastic, full of enthusiasm, impatient, longing, champing/chafing at the bit, desperate;
ready, willing
informal dying, itching, gagging
Origin
1920s: present participle of rare, dialect variant of roar or rear2.
Rhymes
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)