Stupidity and being geed up for the game gets you through the pain.

He goes around getting everyone geed up, saying "come on, we're ready, let's go."

There remains room for improvement, and we are being geed up by a couple of think tanks.

"We're more geed up, we're going to go our/out there and attack it."

At this stage of a grand slam you're sort of geed up and prepared for a tough battle.

Bligh geed up her colleagues before the summer break, apparently telling them the worst was behind the Government and a fresh start beckoned.

What's got Kammy all geed up, you cry?

Thousands of suppliers and sub-contractors must also be geed up which requires organising people from one end of the earth to the other.

It is up to me to ensure the team is geed up and ready to go at the next training session.”

Wenger called for an urgent team meeting, where "home truths were spoken, fingers pointed, players were geed up."

You do have to be careful with him because he can be like a bull in a china shop if he gets geed up about something.

Meg Lanning has captained well, rotating her bowlers and keeping her team geed up.

Is she catching up on housework, geed up by one of her own songs on the stereo and skipping round, Dyson in hand?

Much later, Nevin, geed up by his goal, danced past two tackles along the byline and pulled back a cross which Aldridge just failed to reach.

When he went over to take a corner kick, he would be the one waving his arms and getting the fans geed up, and they responded every time.

He doesn't know he does it, he just says: 'That's the way I play and I have to shout to get myself geed up for a game'.

One project certainly getting everyone geed up is the prospect of Terry Gilliam resurrecting his ambitions to make a movie based on Cervantes's "Don Quixote".

The mules geed up nicely; the gig rattled down the Valley of Murcia in which the Circus Maximus lay, and left the city through the Capena Gate.

Much of the clout at Seattle was provided by the Teamsters who had turned out in force, and were 'geed up' by a rousing speech from Reform Party far-right candidate Patrick Buchanan.

Later, with a loping Calypso beat in full swing, and geed up enthusiastically by Waithe, some in the crowd broke ranks with the static seating arrangement and stood to dance in the aisles.

So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed.

And if you want to be geed up when you're down, and you get the crowd going, as soon as you've turned things round, you still want to be able to screen out excess noise so you can concentrate.

The way assistant coach Ante Milicic geed up Mooy before training would suggest the midfielder, capped as a Socceroo last year, will start instead of Yianni Perkatis while Polenz looked untroubled in the warm-up.

The audience has been skilfully geed up by slick warm-up men, we know when to stand up and applaud, to dance (or sway woodenly in my case) when the house band plays, to look at each other quizzically when someone says something moving.

Marshalled by charismatic, articulate frontman, MC Chuck D, the group geed up a gallantly enthusiastic crowd by reformatting AC/DC, Nirvana and the White Stripes as exhilarating, sample-heavy party hip hop with the help of a powerfully rocking live backing band.

I was geed-up to do some secretarial work.

Matthew produced six early errors before offering a geed-up snarl behind Anjema's back, as he created some breathing space in the third, spurring the Englishman into life.