up and at 'em

Fig. up and taking action. Dad woke me at seven, saying, "Up and at'em!" It's six-thirty. Time for us to be up and at 'em.

up and at 'em

Get going, get busy, as in Up and at 'em-there's a lot of work to be done. This colloquial idiom, often uttered as a command, uses at 'em (for "at them") in the general sense of tackling a project, and not in reference to specific persons.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Luningning	-	Tagalog
Adolphus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Joakim	YO-ah-kim (Swedish), YO-ah-keem (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Serbian, Macedonian
Skye	SKIE	English (Modern)
Amelina	-	Ancient Germanic
Iephthae	-	Biblical Greek