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  1. 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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It was a family deeply in love with the theatre - with her mother, Bim Scales, a former actor who'd given it all up for marriage and children.

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Add it all up and Reddit is having a moment.

When you’re so bereft of real examples of your imaginary oppression that you’re forced to literally make it all up, it’s time for introspection in a therapist’s office — not manifesting your persecution fantasy into a feature film.

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—U.S. futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq were all up around 0.1% in early trade.

Add it all up—the groundless social media outrage, the bad-faith media stories, and the House Republican investigation—and the strategy becomes obvious: erode public trust in Wikipedia.

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