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• Get-up

  [get-uhp] /ˈgɛtˌʌp/ noun 1. . 2. . [get-uhp] /ˈgɛtˌʌp/ noun, Informal. 1. costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup. 2. arrangement or format; style: the getup of a new cookbook. noun

• Get-up-and-go

  [get-uhp-uh n-goh] /ˈgɛtˌʌp ənˈgoʊ/ noun 1. energy, drive, and enthusiasm. noun 1. (informal) energy, drive, or ambition noun Energy and initiative; pep; piss and vinegar, pizzazz: My get-up-and-go has got up and went [1940s+; in the form get up and get found by 1884]

• Get up steam

  Prepare to work hard, summon up energy. For example, If we can just get up steam we can finish in no time. This expression alludes to producing enough steam to work an engine. [ Early 1800s ] Also see: under full speed ahead

• Get-well

  [get-wel] /ˈgɛtˈwɛl/ adjective 1. conveying wishes for one’s recovery, as from an illness: a get-well card.

• Get wind of

  Learn of; hear a rumor about. For example, “If my old aunt gets wind of it, she’ll cut me off with a shilling” (William Makepeace Thackeray, in Paris Sketch Book, 1840). This expression alludes to an animal perceiving a scent carried by the wind. [ First half of 1800s ]

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