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Phrase(s): all dressed up and nowhere to go [and] all dressed up with nowhere to go
completely ready for something that has been postponed or has failed to materialize. (May be literal or figurative.) • Tom: I just heard that your company is closed today. Fred: Gee, I’m all dressed up and nowhere to go. • The space shot was cancelled, so all the astronauts are all dressed up with nowhere to go.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs