all up
Defeated; also, near death. For example, The home team knew it was all up when their star quarterback was injured, or The party lost their way over a week ago and in this subzero weather I'm sure it's all up with them. This idiom uses up in the sense of “finished.” [Early 1700s] Also see all over, def. 4.
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How to use all up in a sentence
Eneas slipped him into a free-for-all up here and him and a strange white man about busted the county.
Eneas Africanus | Harry Stillwell Edwards"They-all up yonder in that school where you was at hain't got much sense, it looks like to me," was her comment.
The Quickening | Francis LyndeAh'm goin' t' fetch the loot'nant, an' Ah'm goin' t' git the feller that shot you-all up if Ah kin kotch him.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers | Jessie Graham FlowerWe-all up here ain't going to stand for any preaching business.
Joyce of the North Woods | Harriet T. ComstockI gets word about you-all up in Vegas, an' allows I'll come trundlin' down yere an' size you up.
Faro Nell and Her Friends | Alfred Henry Lewis
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