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# {{lb|en|idiomatic}} [[vigorously|Vigorously]] [[launch]]ed or launching into an activity. |
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#* '''1945''' Nov. 12, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792535,00.html Sport: Stretch Drive]," ''Time'' <small>(retrieved 29 May 2015)</small>: |
#* '''1945''' Nov. 12, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792535,00.html Sport: Stretch Drive]," ''Time'' <small>(retrieved 29 May 2015)</small>: |
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#*: At 41, Jockey Richards was still '''up and at 'em''' last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. |
#*: At 41, Jockey Richards was still '''up and at 'em''' last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. |
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Revision as of 16:48, 25 February 2018
English
Phrase
- (idiomatic) Vigorously launched or launching into an activity.
- 1945 Nov. 12, "Sport: Stretch Drive," Time (retrieved 29 May 2015):
- At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes.
- 2002 Sep. 15, Simon Schama, "A Whiff of Dread for the Land of Hope," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2015):
- [O]nly two alternative responses seem available: irrepressible up-and-at-'em chirpiness or apocalyptic hysteria.
- 2011 Sep. 9, Andrea Sachs, "Bed Check: Mountain dreamin’ in W. Va.," Washington Post (retrieved 29 May 2015):
- I padded downstairs to find everyone up and at 'em, their day leaps ahead of mine.
- 2013 Nov. 18, Stephen Brenkley, "Peter Siddle hungry to leave some banana skins in England's path," Independent (UK) (retrieved 29 May 2015):
- Siddle is the sort of up-and-at-'em, tearaway fast bowler whom you imagine to train on raw red meat while running over a bed of hot coals.
- 1945 Nov. 12, "Sport: Stretch Drive," Time (retrieved 29 May 2015):
Usage notes
- Sometimes used to express a command, with an unexpressed but implied imperative action verb, as in:
- Okay, team, [get] up and at 'em and make every shot count!
- Sometimes used specifically to urge a person to rise from bed, with the same sense as rise and shine.