gear up
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gear up (third-person singular simple present gears up, present participle gearing up, simple past and past participle geared up)
- (intransitive or reflexive, idiomatic) To prepare for an activity.
- The hardware store is gearing up for spring in February with garden supplies and seeds.
- We're gearing ourselves up for a busy week ahead.
- 2021 June 2, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: £80m upgrades and renewals on Bank Holiday”, in RAIL, number 932, page 23:
- As this issue of RAIL went to press, NR was gearing up to deliver a further £80m of upgrades over the Late May Bank Holiday (May 29-31), across 620 projects.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To put on special clothing or equipment.
- 2002, E. J. Duck, Heroes on Quads, page 68:
- The soldiers geared up and loaded onto the assault craft. They would have a forty-five minute ride to the beach.