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get-up-and-go

[ get-uhp-uhn-goh ]

noun

  1. energy, drive, and enthusiasm.


get-up-and-go

noun

  1. informal.
    energy, drive, or ambition
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of get-up-and-go1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Considering all of that, might turning the knob way up on polyandry as a real or imagined stimulus rocket launch the get-up-and-go of any given man's sperm?

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I'm only 33 and I was a get-up-and-go person.

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How did a country once known for our get-up-and-go come to shrug off mass death, particularly when other countries’ records suggest many U.S. covid-19 deaths were preventable?

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But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young....

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When she wasn’t fussing about him seeming glad to bring home the bent cans and weevily rice and flour we couldn’t sell at the store, she was complaining about his not having any get-up-and-go.

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