Brewer's: Primed

Full and ready to deliver a speech. We say of a man whose head is full of his subject, “He is primed to the muzzle.” Of course, the allusion is to firearms.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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