{"id":1575,"date":"2009-09-22T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2009-09-22T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:56:12","slug":"loaded-for-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Loaded for bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/blackbear.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Black bear\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;loaded for bear&#8221; appears in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0446695645\/omniglot-20\">novel<\/a> I&#8217;m reading at the moment and is used in the following context: &#8220;I know next to nothing about computers but clearly Dommie is loaded for bear.&#8221; I take this to mean that Dommie is a computer wizard who&#8217;s ready for any challange, and if he were to go hunting, he would have appropriate ammunition for bears.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/loaded+for+bear\">Free Dictionary<\/a>, loaded for bear means, &#8220;ready and eager to deal with something that is going to be difficult&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdoesthatmean.com\/node\/1983\">What does this mean?<\/a> defines this expression as, &#8220;To be full of energy. To be prepared for any eventuallity; to be over-prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=loaded%20for%20bear\">Urban Dictionary<\/a> defines it as, &#8220;Carrying more equipment than necessary. Overloaded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard this phrase before and suspect it might be used mainly in American English. Is it familiar to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;loaded for bear&#8221; appears in the novel I&#8217;m reading at the moment and is used in the following context: &#8220;I know next to nothing about computers but clearly Dommie is loaded for bear.&#8221; I take this to mean that Dommie is a computer wizard who&#8217;s ready for any challange, and if he were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}