The emoted threat: prepared to fight (5,2,3,5)
I believe the answer is:
armed to the teeth
'fight' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'the emoted threat prepared' is the wordplay.
'prepared' indicates anagramming the letters.
'the'+'emoted'+'threat'='theemotedthreat'
'theemotedthreat' anagrammed gives 'ARMED TO THE TEETH'.
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for armed to the teeth that I've seen is " with lots of weapons".)