ROLL UP ONE'S SLEEVES Definition & Meaning

roll up one's sleeves

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Idioms and Phrases

Prepare to work, as in When he saw how much snow had fallen he simply rolled up his sleeves and went to find the shovel . This expression, alluding to turning one's sleeves upward to avoid getting them wet or dirty, is used both literally and more loosely, as in the example here.

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“Isn’t that enough reason to come home at the end of the day, roll up one’s sleeves, fire up the stove and start smashing the garlic?”

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One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck.

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