(Are you) ready for this?

(Are you) ready for this?
(Are you) ready for this?
a way of presenting a piece of news or information that is expected to excite or surprise the person spoken to. •

Tom: Boy, do I have something to tell you! Are you ready for this? Mary: Sure. Let me have it!

Tom: Now, here's a great joke! Are you ready for this? It is so funny! Alice: I can hardly wait.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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