hold one's end up

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Also, keep one's end up. Do one's share. For example, John always holds his end up, but Jerry is less reliable, or Let's hope she can keep up her end. In these expressions end alludes to one of two sides of something that must be lifted by two persons. [Mid-1900s]

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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
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