mix it up
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[edit]mix it up (third-person singular simple present mixes it up, present participle mixing it up, simple past and past participle mixed it up)
- (idiomatic) To compete vigorously, to quarrel, or to fight physically.
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in This Side of Paradise:
- He would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up.
- To engage with people, relate to people.
- 1933, Robert Collins, The Convention:
- And Carl hasn't really been mixing it up with the fans.
- 2010 Meet the Press interview with Colin Powell, speaking of Sarah Palin:
- Q. What is her impact right now on the Republican Party, and does it bother you?
A. She's a star. Why--it doesn't bother me. I mean, she is out there mixing it up, she's conveying her views, she's animating people to come forward and participate in the political process.
- Q. What is her impact right now on the Republican Party, and does it bother you?
- 2015 BBC interview by Jon Sopel with Barack Obama, 24 July. Answer to a question about his trip to Kenya:
- This one's more business. You don't have the time to travel. You don't have the time to, ah, mix it up.
- To create one or more variations of the usual way in which something is done.
- 2002, Kathy Etling, The Art of Whitetail Deception, →ISBN, page 95:
- Indeed, why not try mixing it up even more by adding a completely different deer vocalization to the mix, or maybe more, to make the woods come alive with the sounds that deer make?
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[edit]- “mix it up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.