loaded for bear
Meaning: Fully prepared and equipped, mentally and materially, to face a difficult challenge or confrontation.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Animals
Origin: From hunting: a weapon loaded and ready to fire at a dangerous animal like a bear implies the hunter is seriously armed and expectant of real combat.
More idioms — Animals
- until the cows come home — For an indefinitely long time; forever or seemingly forever.
- plumer la poule sans la faire crier — To extract money or advantage from someone so skillfully that they do not complain or res…
- faire le pont-levis — For a horse to rear up very high.
- faire dresser l’oreille — To catch someone's attention or spark their interest.
- renaître de ses cendres — To rise again and flourish after near-total destruction.
- donner un coup de pied dans la fourmilière — To strike a major blow or take bold action that stirs up considerable agitation and contr…
More English idioms
- have someone's guts for garters — To punish someone severely, especially with angry or violent reprimand.
- spin one's wheels — To work hard without making any real progress toward a goal.
- Lord willing and the creek don't rise — Used to express contingency on circumstances beyond one's control, especially minor natur…
- land in someone's lap — Something desirable comes to someone without effort or expectation on their part.
- wet one's whistle — To have a drink.
- out of spoons — Exhausted of energy or resources, usually mental or emotional.
From our untranslatable words
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