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fixing to verb phrase Preparing or getting ready to, being about to; intending to. [this is the progressive form of the verb phrase fix to and apparently developed in the United States in the early 19th century]
1861 Martin CW Letters (Nov 15) there is great maney fixing to Leve this Eavnig & great more expcts to go Next week. 1915 Hall Claib Jones 31 As Ben Hall was fixing to leave, Big John Hall. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) He looked around and he saw a large panther a-laying on a log fixing to jump on him. 1955 Parris Roaming Mts 243 It looks like it’s fixin’ to weather up. 1970 Burton-Manning Coll 94A He was fixing to drown her and she drowned him. 1998 Dante OHP-61 They’s still renting the houses then, they was a-fixing to get ready to sell them.