UP A TREE Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

In a difficult situation, as in They found the drugs in his suitcase, so he was up a tree . This expression alludes to an animal, such as a raccoon or squirrel, that climbs a tree for refuge from attackers, which then surround the tree so it cannot come down. [ Colloquial ; early 1800s]

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Russo also saw a black cat up a tree and figured it must be Blackie.

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Denis Carbonaro has been making sculptures in the front and back garden of his Fife semi for nine-and-a-half years, including a woolly mammoth, a Spanish galleon up a tree, a spider and a shrine during Covid.

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He said the wounded bear ran off and climbed up a tree — but fell to the ground because of its injuries.

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I had never seen anything like it: My Human was being pursued up a tree by a monster.

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“Can you wake up a body the way you can wake up a tree?” she asks him.

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