roll up one's sleeves
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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)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, up, one's, sleeves.
- (idiomatic) To prepare to work.
- 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes quoting Steve Bruce, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- "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."
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roll one's sleeves up
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prepare to work
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