roll up one's sleeves

/ɹˈəʊl ˌʌp wˈɒnz slˈiːvz/

/ɹˈoʊl ˌʌp wˈʌnz slˈiːvz/

[phrase]

to roll up one's sleeves

[PHRASE]

to prepare oneself for an intense or difficult task

to [roll] up {one's} sleeves definition and meaning

Examples

1. And basically you roll your sleeves up and you do not stop until you get that thing made.

2. Rather than being slowly gnawed at by sideways glances at the truth, the gallows humorist insists that they will not be silenced by it, they roll their sleeves up, grab it tenaciously and remove its sting through comedy.

3. Let me roll my sleeves up

4. yeah, you know, you can have a fairly good time but this was an intellectual project and you know, you were committed to kind of churning certain things out, even if it just meant rolling your sleeves up and churning the old bloody stencil papers out on Wednesday afternoons, I think most of it used to kind of take place.

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