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Brewer's: Ready
(The). An elliptical expression for ready-money. Goldsmith says, “AEs in presenti perfectum format” (“Ready-money makes a man perfect”). (Eton Latin Grammar.)
“Lord Strut was not very flush in the `ready.”' —Dr. Arbuthnot.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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