(idiomatic) To prepare for trouble.

(idiomatic) Able to readily understand things; aware and intelligent.

(idiomatic) Delighted, thrilled.

(simile) To evade or shun, if at all possible.

(cricket) Describing a way of getting out in which the batsman deliberately touches the ball with the hand not holding the bat.

(idiomatic, often followed by for) To make future progress or development easier.

(colloquial, rhetorical question) A rhetorical question in response to a question to which the answer is an emphatic yes.

(idiomatic) In rapport or complete accord.

To tease, ridicule or mock (someone). / To subject those present to teasing, ridicule or mockery, or to show contempt. / To be outrageously unreasonable.

(Canada, US, informal) A nuisance; a source of trouble or annoyance.