It means to be ready for something.
For example, you want to make a cake and you want to make sure that you have everything before you make it so you get out everything but you find out you have no rising flour so you go to the shop, buy it, go back home and make your cake. Now that's the right thing to do but the wrong way is to get your things on the way. You find out that you have no flour an have to abandon it.
The common idiom is to "get your ducks in a row."
It's GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW. It means to get things in order or to get organized. This is a common idiom.
You have your prioties sorted.
Mom calls and first one there is first in line.
When you go duck hunting it is best to have the ducks fly in your direction or sitting on the water, in a row. It makes it easier to actually shoot them. The phrase has been adapted to apply to any situation where multiple things need to be set up whether it's in business, family or in your personal life. Usually said when you are in the process of getting things together. Putting your ducks in a row.
noun: line, file ,row verb: line up, get, in line, stand in line
The reason that geese walk and swim in a single file is to reduce the wind resistance. Flying, walking, and swimming in a straight line is easier on the geese than not doing it in a straight line.
Sun on the Moon
This is possibly a 'twisting' of the original phrase of having one's "Ducts on line" (from steamship days) - hence to have all your "Ducts on line", meant that you were all set, and going full speed ahead.
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oops, meant to say "3 ducks in a row" in Can you see what I see Night Before Christmas
There are four ducks: (in a single file row)The front two ducks are "in front of two ducks"; the rear two ducks are "behind two ducks"; and the central two ducks are between the duck at the front and the duck at the end, hence they are "between two ducks".