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[ adjective ] (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed
Examples "in no fit state to continue" "fit to drop" "laughing fit to burst" "she was fit to scream" "primed for a fight" "we are set to go at any time" Used in print (Sports Age, 24:9...)Is your sporting firearms and ammunition department primed for the expanding horizons ? (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)He opens his discourse , however , with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents , all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age . Related terms |
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