The tired horse eventuallygot up and over the hurdle.
I'm having difficultygetting up the stairs.
1957 September, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, inRailway Magazine, page 620, fromHerapath's Journal:
When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes toget up.
Torise from one'sbed, usually uponwaking up in order to begin one's day.
I didn'tget up until midday.
1918, William James, chapter26, inThe Principles of Psychology:
We know what it is to get out of bed on a freezing morning in a room without a fire, and how the very vital principle within us protests against the ordeal. Probably most persons have lain on certain mornings for an hour at a time unable to brace themselves to the resolve. We think how late we shall be, how the duties of the day will suffer; we say, "Imustget up, this is ignominious," etc.; but still the warm couch feels too delicious, the cold outside too cruel, and resolution faints away and postpones itself again and again just as it seemed on the verge of bursting the resistance and passing over into the decisive act. Now how do weeverget up under such circumstances? If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than notget up without any struggle or decision at all. We suddenly find that we havegot up.
2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, inBBC[1]:
City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one couldget up in support of the winger.
2010 July 1 [2001],Ian Healy,Hands and Heals: The Autobiography[2] (non-fiction),→ISBN:
Back in January 1989, as soon as Rodgot up me that night, I knew he rated me, cared about what I did and how I performed. I felt I′d climbed a big step up the credibility ladder.
2003 February 6, James Hicks, “New LoY spell info up.”, inalt.games.everquest[3] (Usenet):
I said ok and resorted to only taunting or using a taunt spell to get mobs off the wizzy but the clericgot up me for that too.
2003 October 20, Dave Ello, “New Battlax to support the old Battle-axe...”, inaus.motorcycles[4] (Usenet):
To those of you who (and there a a few) whogot up me yesterday at Mt White for being a slack-arse and not replacing the rear tyre on the 'Bird, I can now state for the record that she's shod with a brand new 020.
2011,Mark Whittaker,Brave: Ordinary Australians and their extraordinary acts of courage (non-fiction), page205:
Alan, silver-haired and full of Aussie wit, tells me how his favourite cousingot up him recently, ‘Of course, you get yourself into these situations if you′re always trying to be the hero.’ That really annoyed him.
Looking at the polling, I don't reckon this referendum willget up.
2009, John Gilfoyle,And They Came to Roma Saleyards, Boolarong Press,→ISBN, page93:
If the Blues happen to win, next day at Roma Saleyards you wouldn't know there'd been a game, but if the Maroonsget up they drive it into the NSW buyers at every pen.
2021 October 26, H. G. Nelson,The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport, Macmillan Publishers Aus.,→ISBN:
'The Curry for the Country' minister's rave was, 'If Laborgot up,Albo and his lot of mad loony socialist greenies were going to force all Australians to drive electric vehicles. Imagine our nation without the heady aroma of diesel.'
(slang) To have sex; to penetrate sexually; to have a sexual or romantic liaison.
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