get-up-and-go

[get-uhp-uhn-goh]

noun

1. energy, drive, and enthusiasm.

get-up-and-go

noun

1. informal,  energy, drive, or ambition

Word History and Origins

Origin of get-up-and-go¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Considering all of that, might turning the knob way up on polyandry as a real or imagined stimulus rocket launch the get-up-and-go of any given man's sperm?

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I'm only 33 and I was a get-up-and-go person.

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How did a country once known for our get-up-and-go come to shrug off mass death, particularly when other countries’ records suggest many U.S. covid-19 deaths were preventable?

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Engineering students, graphic designers and gamers might need a little more get-up-and-go in their laptops, like more RAM, faster processing or improved graphics capability.

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This stands to reason - the most skilled are the most likely to have the get-up-and-go to move countries - and that's been seen in economic migration the world over.

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