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rolls up one's sleeves

rolls up one's sleeves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roll up one's sleeves.

Meaning of roll up one's sleeves

Verb

roll up one's sleeves (third-person singular simple present rolls up one's sleeves, present participle rolling up one's sleeves, simple past and past participle rolled up one's sleeves)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To prepare to work.
    • "We could quite easily have folded today but thankfully they rolled up their sleeves and got back into it. We could even have won it. We had a couple of great opportunities but we just ran out of juice."2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes quoting Steve Bruce, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, up, one's, sleeves.

Questions about rolls up one's sleeves

What is rolls up one's sleeves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rolls up one's sleeves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roll up one's sleeves.

Words near rolls up one's sleeves in the dictionary

  1. rolls the dice
  2. rolls the tape
  3. rolls the trucks
  4. rolls up
  5. rolls up on
  6. rolls up one's sleeves
  7. rolls up the sidewalks
  8. rolls with
  9. rolls with it
  10. rolls with the punches
  11. Rolls-Royce

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