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On tap

adjective

(of liquids) available by turning a tap. "Hot and cold running water on tap"

Available for immediate use. "Other sports and entertainment facilities are on tap" , "There are numerous projects on tap"

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"On tap" Quotes from Famous Books

... contents of his glass, and set it down with a bang on the table as he fixed his eyes on Tap's face, and from the succeeding observations Tap realized that his sympathy and would-be friendly overture had been as gall in the mouth of his companion, who, unused to anything save the rugged bluntness of a wild, free life, took the mealy-mouthed sentence as a slight on ...

— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott

... so on creation, Folks haven't time to talk or sing or cry or even laugh. But if you take the notion to want some such emotion, They've got it all on tap fur you, ...

— Poems of Sentiment • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... tinged with a philosophy which appears to have been always kept on tap, closes this chapter of his remarkable career. ...

— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... a plain cue for Harold Burbank to launch out on the story of his life; but, say, he didn't need any such encouragement. He was a willin' and ready converser, Harold was; and—my!—what a lot of classy words he did have on tap! First off I wondered how it was a youngster like him could dig up so many; but when I'd heard a little more about him I could account for ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

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