roll up your sleeves

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to prepare to work or fight

   or you can roll up your sleeves and get to work,

   Come on. Roll up your sleeves.

In the movies · 3

• or you can roll up your sleeves and get to work,Bo Burnham: Inside2021
• Come on. Roll up your sleeves.Swimming with Sharks1994
• She rolled up her sleeves and she learned to make shoes.Coco2017
• Roll up your sleeves.M3GAN2022
• Could you sign these, please? And roll up your sleeves.Arrival2016
• that you roll up your sleeves, that you buckle down and you get to work.The Internship2013
• Do you want to roll up your sleeve or will you rip it off?The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Learn it in full scenes

• Swimming with Sharks1994
  • Buddy Sweet-Talks Shelley Winters
  • Buddy Berates Guy Over the Phone
  • Guy's First Day as Buddy's Assistant
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

• be on a roll
• a roll in the hay
• be rolling in money
• let's roll
• rolled into one
• rolling in the aisles
• a rolling stone gathers no moss
• roll on
• roll with the punches
• get the ball rolling
• turn in his grave
• heads will roll

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• in fairness
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• only just
• to date
• i must say