Word Usage/Meanings
POPEYE
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You lovers of the English language might enjoy this:
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky
or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP,
look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions .
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............
Time to shut UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning
& the last thing you do at night? U P
HAVE A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky
or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP,
look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions .
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............
Time to shut UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning
& the last thing you do at night? U P
HAVE A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER
Comments
**When we do for others what they should do for themselves, we disempower them.**
Don't we all try to get a leg UP on our competition?
In a contest you try to show UP your opponent.
Each morning when I leave for work I back UP my car out of the garage.
When we give things out, we divvy them UP.
We free UP time to attend important meetings.
When we go out on the weekend, we live it UP.
Got promoted? You're moving UP!
I'll let Don comment on the term for getting pregnant!
Well, from what I've read and seen in those science cartoons, sperm swims UPstream and sometimes a woman, therefore, turns UP pregnant.
And isn't it true that a place where you shack UP is often run DOWN? And in those places, if you don't turn UP the heat at night, your woman often will turn UP pregnant. I don't have a thought right yet on 'gettin' it UP' but will work on that.
**When we do for others what they should do for themselves, we disempower them.**
I'm aware of one kind of 'circle' where everyone is supposedly 'UP'.
**When we do for others what they should do for themselves, we disempower them.**
This has been taken UP the wrong alley....
When in school weren't we told to listen UP...
or when trying to be sooooo cool to, give it UP...
I've been known to liquor UP on occasion...
Don't we all have some kind of hang UP?....
We Up the ante...and end UP the loooooser....
We boot UP computers...that take UP space!
Okay...I give UP now...
If you throw up, you eventually Clean Up or Wipe Up.
But if your horse Throws Up or is otherwise nasty, you Wipe Him Down, not Up.
When I was younger, to call a girl a Pick Up was a Put Down. And you hoped it didn't Get Out if she Got Up instead of Putting Out.
And if we were sitting in chairs against the wall at a dance, we had to Get Up to Get Down. And if the teachers let us leave the dance, we Drank Up and Threw Up and Laid Down.
Depends on whether you swing UP or down with the bat.
When a broadcaster gives scores: XXX is Up 35-33.
Why is it that when the Dr. does a work UP it is a good thing;when I'm worked UP it's not? Pass the meds please.