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Fri 23 Apr, 2010 07:25 am
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On 28 December 1963, Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old schoolboy in San Diego, California, got up at 6 am feeling wide awake and raring to go. He didn't go back to sleep again until the morning of 8 January 1964. That's 11 days without sleep.
@oristarA,
You've run into a common English idiom.
"raring to go"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/raring+to+go
Quote:to be ready and excited to begin doing something
I'd recommend bookmarking the idioms portion of thefreedictionary.com
@oristarA,
Full of eagerness, enthusiastic (from various web dictionary sites).
@oristarA,
As in "raring to go, but you can't go for raring?
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