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Ready and waiting   /rˈɛdi ənd wˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Ready and waiting

adjective
1.
Being and remaining ready and available for use.  Synonym: waiting.  "Found her mother waiting for them" , "An impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests" , "Military forces ready and waiting"






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"Ready and waiting" Quotes from Famous Books



... a smile that still was sweet, Sewed, on a little garment, With a cradle at her feet. Pantaloon stood ready and waiting, It was time for the going on; But the clown in vain searched wildly— The "property baby" ...
— Successful Recitations • Various

... "It's all ready and waiting for us, all embowered and carpeted for love," said Allan musingly. "I wonder what old Van Amburg would think of his estate if he could see it now? And what would he say to our having it? You know, Van was pretty ugly to me at one time about my political ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... O'Neill, with some difficulty and in his own way, told of V.V.'s creed about the Huns. Of how he had maintained that they needed awakening, nothing else, and were always ready and waiting for it, no matter how little they themselves knew that. And, finally, how he had said one day—in a phrase that had been brought flashing back over the months—that if a man but called to such as these in the right voice, he could not hide himself where ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... numbers of agreeable people who are ready and waiting to be introduced are many. The woman of literary distinction and the possessor of an honored name may be invincibly shy and afraid to speak; while her next neighbor, knowing her fame perhaps, and anxious to make her acquaintance, misconstrues shyness for pride—a ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... Little Colonel," he said, in a patronizing, big-brotherly tone. "If nobody else will stand between you and that teacup, I'll come to the rescue. Bobby won't go back on his old chum. I'll bring you a four-leaf clover. Here's one, all ready and waiting." ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston

... before a board for a license he ought to be given to understand that this license will be granted only on condition that he prepare himself intellectually as well as spiritually for the great work of the ministry, and when prepared that he will enter into the field which is white and ready and waiting for the reaper. ...
— The Demand and the Supply of Increased Efficiency in the Negro Ministry - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 13 • Jesse E. Moorland

... brigantine was ready and waiting alongside when they came upon deck, and immediately they descended to it and took their seats. So they landed, and in a little while were walking up the village street in the darkness, she clinging to his arm as though she would swoon, and the captain of ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle



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