Talk:get ready

RFD discussion: November 2020–March 2021

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get ready

SOP. Translations can be moved to prepare. Benwing2 (talk) 00:29, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

• Keep as a set phrase. bd2412 T 01:50, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. I just find it sad that this would even be a candidate to be tossed out of a dictionary. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 10:29, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
• Has a sense that is idiomatic enough, IMO, though it could be debatable whether the present article captures this completely perfectly. The weaker sense, exemplified by "I'll get the tripod ready", can go along for the ride I suppose, so as to avoid a slightly anal "&lit" solution, so Keep.

RFD kept — Dentonius 10:45, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Reopened and delete. Get ready for trouble. ;) ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 11:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

LBD, it's your right to do that. But I'm just curious, why? How do you and your brethren feel after you succeed in getting a perfectly informative and useful entry removed from this dictionary? As long as it's not yours, it's okay, right? — Dentonius 20:56, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

I find this pointless duplication of content, because get + adjective can be used to productively form potentially ergative verb phrases: get smart, get happy, get pregnant, get stoned. That said, I am baffled to see that M-W has an entry for this (and Collins mentioned it at make ready). ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 16:46, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Keep. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Lemmings say keep. See OneLook Dictionary Search.. DCDuring (talk) 23:53, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

• RFD-kept (for real this time, after Dentonius's inappropriate closure). —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 08:39, 7 March 2021 (UTC)