saddle up
Get ride-ready
Saddle up means to put a saddle on a horse in preparation for riding: We saddled up at dawn and headed for the canyon.
By extension, it means to get ready for action or departure: Saddle up, we're leaving in five minutes.
The phrase carries a frontier flavor, evoking the American West.
- stirrupMounted rider's foot support
- reinsBit-attached steering straps
- bridleEquine control harness
- mountClimb up or steed
- hit the trailBegin traveling or leave
break camp · hit the road · ride off into the sunset · steed · girth · ride out · trail ride · set out · cinch · leather straps · giddy up · spur · cowboy · gear up · courser · take the reins · get going · horseback
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- departuresleave, depart, exit, leaving, go
- commandsgo, stop, wait, come, run
- getting readyget ready, readying, be prepared, equipping, gear up
- Horse Idiomshold your horses, dark horse, high horse, straight from the horse's mouth, horse sense
- Southwest Slangy'all, howdy, reckon, fixin to, pardner
saddle updismount
Get off something ridden
get off · climb down · alight · hop off · get down
saddle upsettle in
Become comfortably established
stand down · bed down · call it a day · pack it in · turn in
saddle upunsaddle
Remove riding equipment
untack · unharness · unbridle · stand down · strip down
saddle, saddles, saddled, saddling, saddler, saddlery, unsaddle, packsaddle, side-saddle