تَشْمِيرtucking up one's sleeves in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَيَحُثُّ عَلَى السَّيْرِ وَالتَّشْمِيرِ لِلْحَاقِ بِهِمْ

  And he urges setting out and tucking up one's sleeves to catch up with them.

  وَالتَّشْمِيرِ — and the tucking up of the sleeves. The wa- joins a second thing urged, 'and the rolling-up of sleeves', alongside setting out, so it links two parallel goals of the same urging. The noun keeps the definite al- and the genitive ending shared under 'upon'. The connector keeps the two parallel; the phrase is a classical idiom for getting ready to go.

  From: Choosing Good Companions →