up with the lark
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- (idiomatic) Awake and out of bed early in the morning.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, part 1 "The Window", chapter 1:
- "Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow," said Mrs Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
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awake and out of bed early
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- “be up with the lark”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “be up with the lark” (US) / “be up with the lark” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.