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go up
verb
(also preposition) to move or lead to or as if to a higher place or level; rise; increase
prices are always going up
the curtain goes up at eight o'clock
new buildings are going up all around us
to be destroyed
the house went up in flames
to go or return (to college or university) at the beginning of a term or academic year
Idioms and Phrases
Be put up, as in New buildings are going up all over town .
Rise; increase. For example, His temperature is going up at an alarming rate , or The costs of construction are going up all the time . [Late 1800s]
Also, be gone up . Be destroyed, ruined, done for; also, die, be killed. For example, If we're not back in a week, you'll know we've gone up , or In spite of our efforts, the plans for a new library are gone up . [ Slang ; mid-1800s]
Forget one's lines on the stage or make a mistake in performing music. For example, Don't worry, you know your part and you won't go up , or He went up in the last movement of the sonata . [ Slang ; 1960s] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with go up .
Example Sentences
"They go up quickly after damage to the kidneys, and they go up in relation to the severity of the injury. The worse the kidney injury is, the higher the ceramide levels will be."
While this "iterative" process is part of the normal forecasting round that precedes a Budget, on Monday of this week the chancellor suggested very strongly that tax rates would go up in a BBC interview.
“Emotional investors tend to sell when the market is going down and buy when the market is going up,” wrote Bespoke Investment Group in a recent note Thursday.
Are there restaurants that maintain your loyalty even when prices go up?
Purchases of toys, which primarily come from China, went up 15%, from 33 to 38.
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