Timeline for is "up *something*!" an idiom?
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| Jun 2, 2015 at 16:05 | vote | accept | smatthewenglish | ||
| Jun 2, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Delightful medium. But the dye runs. (We saw multicoloured sheep on our recent trip round Ireland. I'd always wondered how they made those multicoloured cardies.) | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 12:52 | comment | added | user11752 | Up voted. There's a similar usage recorded in (IIRC) Nigel Rees' "Graffiti Rules OK", where a graffitist had drawn up various categories (Sport, Politics, etc) and then written "Up the reds!" under each. | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | Mynamite | Would the downvoter care to explain? This answers all 3 of OP's questions. Yes it's an English language idiom, yes it's heard in Ireland, and here's an example of its usage - alive and well! And it quotes the source in case anyone wants to read further. So up yours. | |
| Jun 2, 2015 at 11:26 | history | answered | Mynamite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |