up : Idioms & Phrases

• it is all over with him; he is lost.

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• the allotted time is past.

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• to be informed about; to be versed in. "Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago." H. Spencer.

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• . (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. Colloq. (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. Colloq.

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• . (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. Slang

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• . See under Bring, v. t.

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• . See under Come, v. i.

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• . See under Cut, v. t. & v. i.

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• . See under Draw, v. t.

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• to grow to maturity.

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• (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

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• adverb moving backward and forward along a given course
  
  • he walked up and down the locker room
  • all up and down the Eastern seaboard
• adverb alternately upward and downward
  
  • he eyed him up and down

WordNet

• . (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under Down, adv.

  Fortune . . . led him up and down. Chaucer.

  (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. Totten.

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• (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.

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• . See under Snuff. Slang

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• alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. Colloq.

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• What is going on? Slang

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