hot to trot

• hot-to-trot

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hot to trot

1. (colloquial) Eager to begin; anxious to get going.
   • 1986 May 19, James Kelly, “Shifting the Attack on Leaks”, in Time:

     At the moment, Justice Department lawyers are cool to the idea. "We're not hot to trot on this thing," says one Justice official.

2. (colloquial) Eager for sexual activity.
   • 2008 April 25, Jim DeRogatis, “Madonna reigns supreme with tasty 'Hard Candy'”, in Chicago Sun-Times, retrieved 3 May 2008:

     She's nowhere close to relinquishing her crown as the queen of dance-pop—or abandoning her favorite role as pop music's most hot-to-trot coquette.

The spelling hot to trot is often used when this adjectival expression follows the noun or pronoun it modifies and hot-to-trot is often used when the term precedes the noun.

• (eager to begin): champing at the bit
• (eager for sex): libidinous