on deck
Available, ready for action, as in We had ten kids on deck to clean up after the dance. [Slang; second half of 1800s]
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How to use on deck in a sentence
For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
This is a public health crisis that you might think would give us an all-hands-on-deck attitude.
It will require an all-hands-on-deck effort combining hard work, political savvy, and even a dollop of good luck.
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