ask up

To invite a visitor to one's house (especially if the visitor must travel north to get there). My cousins in Pennsylvania have asked me up to their house for the weekend, but that's a long drive from Florida.

ask someone up

to ask someone to come to one's home for a visit. (Usually said when someone must travel north, up a hill, or to an apartment on a higher floor for the visit.) Let's ask Judy up for the weekend. We asked up a few old friends.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alexus	ə-LEK-səs	English (Modern)
Petre	PE-tre (Romanian)	Romanian, Macedonian, Georgian
Busby	['hʌzbi]
Boris	bah-REES (Russian), BO-ris (German), BAWR-is (English)	Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Georgian, German, History
BolesŁAw	baw-LE-swahf	Polish
Yelyzaveta	-	Ukrainian