"readied up" in Irish Times

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:34 PM -0600 2/7/01, Dan Goodman wrote:
>A few days ago, in an article on a trial, the Irish Times quoted an
>anonymous source as saying that the case had been "readied up".  Would
>this actually have been "redded up"?

I doubt it, unless the meaning in context is really that the case had
been cleaned up (metaphorically) rather than the more likely 'made
ready'.

larry