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• (in) up to (one's) elbows
• (in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s
• (one's) back is up
• (one's) blood is up
• (one's) jig is up
• a bad penny always turns up
• a balls-up
• a bang up job
• a hang-up
• a kick up the arse
• a leg up
• a pick-me-up
• a piss-up
• a put-up job
• a riddle wrapped in an enigma
• a shiver ran up (one's/someone's) spine
• a shiver went up (one's/someone's) spine
• a toss-up
• a turn-up for the book(s)
• a wake-up call
• abut (up) against
• ace up (one's) sleeve
• act (up)on
• act up
• add up
• add up to
• advance (up)on
• agree (up)on
• ahead of time
• alight (up)on
• alkied up
• all dressed up and nowhere to go
• all it's cracked up to be
• all sharped up
• all shook up
• all spruced up
• all the marbles
• all tore up
• all up
• all wound up
• allow (one) up
• allow up
• amount to the same thing
• ante up
• arm up
• arrive (somewhere) (up)on the stroke of
• arrive (up)on the scene
• ask up
• ate up with someone/something
• average up
• baby up
• back up
• back up to
• backed up
• bad penny always turns up
• bail up
• bake up
• bake up a storm
• bale up
• ball someone/something up
• ball up
• balled up
• balled-up
• balloon goes up, the
• balls up
• bandage up
• bang up
• banged up
• bang-up
• bang-up cove
• bank up
• bar up
• barf up
• bark up the wrong tree
• barking up the wrong tree
• barreled up
• base (up)on
• bash up
• batter up
• be a fully paid-up member of
• be all dressed up and nowhere to go
• be all it's cracked up to be
• be barking up the wrong tree
• be below par
• be dead from the neck up
• be dressed (up) to the nines
• be dressed up to the nines
• be fed up to the back teeth
• be had up (for something)
• be hard up
• be laughing up sleeve
• be not what it's cracked up to be
• be on the up
• be on the up and up
• be one up on
• be pushing up daisies
• be shacked up with (someone)
• be tanked up
• be tied (up) in knots
• be toes up
• be up
• be up a gum tree
• be up against
• be up against a brick wall
• be up against it
• be up alley
• be up and about
• be up and down
• be up and running
• be up arse
• be up for
• be up in arms
• be up in the air
• be up street
• be up the creek
• be up the duff
• be up the pole
• be up the spout
• be up the stick
• be up there with
• be up to
• be up to ears in
• be up to much
• be up to neck in
• be up to ninety
• be up to no good
• be up to scratch
• be up to the mark
• be up with the chickens
• be up with the crows
• be up with the lark
• be well up on
• bead up
• Beam me up, Scotty!
• beam up
• beaned up
• bear up
• beat oneself up
• beat out
• beat up
• beat up on
• beef something up
• beef up
• beer up
• belch up
• belly up
• belly up to something
• belly up to the bar
• belt up
• bid up
• big up
• bind up
• bitch something up
• bitch up
• blaze up
• block up
• blood is up
• blow (something) up out of proportion
• blow up
• blow up (one's) phone
• blow up a storm
• blow up in (one's) face
• blow up in face
• blowing up
• blown up
• board up
• bob up
• boil up
• bollix up
• bollixed up
• bolster up
• bone up
• book up
• boost up
• boot up
• booze
• booze it up
• booze up
• botch up
• bottle up
• Bottoms up
• Bottoms up!
• bounce up and down
• bound up in
• bound up with
• bowl up
• box up
• boxed up
• brace up
• brave face, put on a
• break it up
• Break it up!
• break someone up
• break up
• break up with
• breed up a storm
• brew up
• brick up
• brighten up
• brighten up (the) day
• bring something up
• bring up
• bring up for
• bring up on
• bring up sharply
• bring up short
• bring up the rear
• bring up to
• bring up to date
• bring up with a start
• bring up-to-date
• brush up
• bubble up
• buck up
• buckle up
• buddy up
• buddy up to someone
• buddy up with someone
• buff up
• build up
• build up a head of steam
• build up to
• bulk up
• bump up
• bunch up
• bundle up
• bung up
• bunged up
• bungle up
• bunk up
• buoy up
• burn someone up
• burn up
• burn up the road
• burned
• burned up
• bury the hatchet
• bust someone up
• bust something up
• bust up
• butter up
• button up
• buttress up
• buy up
• cage up
• call up
• camp it up
• card up one's sleeve
• card up sleeve
• carve up
• cash up
• cast up
• cast up (one's) accounts
• catch napping
• catch up
• catch up in
• catch up on
• catch up to (something or someone)
• catch up with
• catch up with (someone)
• caught up in
• chain up
• chalk (something) up to experience
• chalk it up
• chalk up
• chalk up to
• change up
• change up with the times
• change with the times
• charge up
• charge up to
• charged up
• chase up
• chat (someone) up
• chat up
• check on
• check up
• check up on
• cheer up
• chew up
• chew up the scenery
• Chin up!
• chink up (something)
• chip up (something)
• chirk up
• choke up
• choose up
• chop up
• chuck
• chuck up
• chum up
• chum up to
• chum up with
• churn up
• cinch up
• clam up
• clamber up
• clean act up
• clean one’s act up
• clean the floor up with
• clean up
• clean up act
• clean up on something
• clear up
• climb up
• clock up
• clog up
• close up
• close up shop
• cloud over
• cloud up
• clue in
• clutch up
• clutter up
• cobble up
• coil up
• coil up into
• collect up
• come from behind
• come out smelling of roses
• come up
• come up a storm
• come up against
• come up for
• come up for air
• come up heads
• come up in the world
• come up roses
• come up smelling like a rose
• come up through the ranks
• come up to
• come up to expectations
• come up to standards
• come up trumps
• come up with
• coming up a cloud
• confuse with
• conjure up
• connect up
• cook up
• cooked up
• coop up
• cork up
• corked up
• corkscrewed up
• cotton up
• cotton up to
• Cough it up!
• cough something up
• cough up
• couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery
• count up
• count up to
• couple up
• cover for
• cover up
• cover-up
• cowboy up
• cozy up
• cozy up to someone
• crack someone up
• crack up
• cracked up
• cracked up to be
• cramp up
• crank something up
• crank up
• crap up
• crap up (something)
• crease up
• creep up
• creep up on
• crinkle up
• crock someone/something up
• crock up
• crop up
• cross someone up
• cross up
• cross up someone
• crum something up
• crum up
• crumb something up
• crumble up
• crumple up
• crunch up
• crush up
• cry up
• cuddle up
• cuddle up with a book
• cue up
• curl up
• curl up and die
• curl up with
• cut the pie up
• cut up
• cut up about someone/something
• cut up rough
• dam up
• dance attendance (up)on (someone)
• dance up a storm
• dander up
• dead from the neck up
• death warmed up
• deliver the goods
• deliver up to
• dent up
• dial up
• dig some dirt up
• dig the dirt
• dig up
• dig up dirt
• dig up tomahawk
• Dig up!
• dim up
• dirty up
• divvy something up
• divvy up
• do it up brown
• do up
• do up brown
• doctor up
• doll up
• dolled up
• done up like a dog's dinner
• don't get up
• Don't give up the day job!
• don't give up the ship
• don't give up your day job
• doors open up
• dope out
• dope up
• double over
• double up
• draft up
• drag up
• draw (one)self up
• draw up
• dream up
• dredge up
• dress up
• dressed up
• drink up
• Drink up!
• drive a price up
• drive someone crazy
• drive someone up the wall
• drive up
• drive up the wall
• drop up
• drum up
• dry up
• Dry up!
• dude oneself up
• dude up
• duded up
• dummy up
• dust-up
• ease off
• ease up
• ease up (on someone or something)
• eat it up
• eat out
• eat something up
• eat up
• eat up with
• Eat up!
• end up
• end up at
• end up doing
• end up in the knacker's yard
• end up to become
• end up with
• enlarge (up)on (something)
• even up
• Everything's coming up roses
• eye (someone) up
• eye up
• eye up (something)
• face down
• face up
• face up to
• fade up
• fare up
• fasten up
• fatten up
• fed to the gills
• fed up
• feel someone up
• feel up
• feel up to
• fess up
• fetch up
• fetch up at
• figure up
• fill up
• filter up
• finish up
• fire someone up
• fire something up
• fire up