🗓️ Idiom: Roll up Your Sleeves (v)
💬 Meaning
- Prepare to start hard work or face a difficult task.
- Get ready to take action and deal with a challenge.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The founder rolled up her sleeves to fix the app’s bugs before the next investor meeting.
- When the startup hit a financial roadblock, the whole team rolled up their sleeves and worked late to create a new plan.
- He rolled up his sleeves and started building the product from scratch.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from the physical action of literally rolling up shirt sleeves before starting manual work. Over time, it began to symbolize readiness to work hard or face a challenge, especially in business or personal efforts.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
It’s time to __________ and solve the problems with our launch strategy.
Answer
roll up our sleeves
2. Choose the correct meaning of “roll up your sleeves”:
A) Relax after finishing a task
B) Avoid difficult responsibilities
C) Prepare to do hard work
Answer
C) Prepare to do hard work
3. Change the sentence using “roll up your sleeves”:
“The co-founders got ready to tackle the funding issues with serious effort.”
Answer
The co-founders rolled up their sleeves to tackle the funding issues.
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