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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ready to bolt" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means someone or something is prepared or poised to leave or escape quickly. Example: After hours of waiting, John's patience was wearing thin and he was getting ready to bolt from the doctor's office. In this example, "ready to bolt" implies that John was about to leave the doctor's office in frustration.
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Who wouldn't be ready to bolt for the United States?
I was always on guard, ready to bolt.
Don clung to a corner, looking as if he were ready to bolt.
By afternoon, the reporters were wandering the halls but ready to bolt for the court at the slightest sign that a verdict might be imminent.
With a long hood and a short rear deck — proportions carried forward by the Chevrolet Camaro, Plymouth Barracuda and many others — the Mustang looked ready to bolt.
One person close to the production said that some actors were ready to bolt the production if there was an extension.
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I got off the bus and angled against the drizzle and darkness to my dilapidated room at the Hotel Selja, where I shivered under two blankets, half-ready to bolt back to Sfax.
Miranda, Prospero's sheltered teenaged daughter, is played with ready-to-bolt feistiness by Jessie Buckley.
Me, I kept to the downstairs and, usually, to the same ready-to-bolt position in my chair.
That engine, an array of bolts, fuel lines, filters and pistons, rolls off the assembly line at the Caterpillar plant here, ready to be bolted onto a two-megawatt electric generator that will create a machine capable of delivering the power that everyone seems to crave these days.
Nearby, a workman is fixing sheets of steel to the walls of a giant walk-in refrigerator, while on the floor, ready to be bolted to the ceiling, are a gruesome-looking array of meat hooks.
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