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Idioms and Phrases
Defeated; also, near death. For example, The home team knew it was all up when their star quarterback was injured , or The party lost their way over a week ago and in this subzero weather I'm sure it's all up with them . This idiom uses up in the sense of “finished.” [Early 1700s] Also see all over , def. 4.Example Sentences
Add it all up and the Kings have more player-development people, about two dozen in all, than they have players.
My Hollywood ending was far from glamorous: me, catatonic on Nick’s couch, realizing I had given it all up for an honest-to-God psychopath.
“It’s also a form of denialism to say it’s all up to the politicians and industry to do something,” Brosch said.
Earlier on the same morning that I spoke with her, Knox had appeared on a British news show in which the hosts questioned if by "dragging it all up again," she was "just continuing the process" of her own "demonization."
“I can’t see my boys playing rugby and soccer, and it has been a very stressful time because I’m used to soaking it all up,” he said.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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