rough-and-ready



rough-and-ready

 
1. strong, active, and ready for anything. John is not exactly rough-and-ready, but he is a moderately good athlete. Ralph is very rough-and-ready, but his table manners are very bad.
2. Go to rough-and-tumble.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Akash-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali
Aod-Biblical Greek
Christinekrees-TEEN (French), kris-TEEN (English), kris-TEE-nə (German, Dutch)French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
SjakieSHAH-keeDutch
AndrÉSahn-DRES (Spanish)Spanish, Icelandic
LÁZÁR-Hungarian