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Discussion Groups / British English / November 2005up-and-at'em
What does up-and-at'em mean? it's taken from a horoscope. Pawel from Warsaw, Poland At 22:13:40 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in <a37ff$43862ec8$d4ba586d$11567@news.chello.pl>: >What does up-and-at'em mean? <http://www.answers.com/topic/up-and-at-em>  SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) > At 22:13:40 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in > <a37ff$43862ec8$d4ba586d$11567@news.chello.pl>: > >>What does up-and-at'em mean? > > <http://www.answers.com/topic/up-and-at-em> Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored with it. Next time answers.com Thx a lot!!! Pawel At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in <3c321$4386484a$d4ba586d$20189@news.chello.pl>: >Thanks a lot. I used www.onelook.com and after a while got bored with it. >Next time answers.com Next time I recommend google.co.uk, set to look at UK sites only. That's what I used to find that link. Of course, it's possible you may have problems accessing google.co.uk - it might try and force you to the pl version - I don't know. But I have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past. SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) > At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote in > <3c321$4386484a$d4ba586d$20189@news.chello.pl>: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > - it might try and force you to the pl version - I don't know. But I > have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past. You were insufficiently precise. The phrase is usually thought to be derived from "Up, Guards, and at 'em" - allegedly the command given by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Many years later the Duke denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did say was, Stand up, Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the order to attack.' SignatureJohn Briggs At 23:31:31 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> wrote in <n3shf.2959$xP2.911@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>: >>have successfully used google.co.nz and google.co.fr in the past. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >denied it: 'What I must have said and possibly did say was, Stand up, >Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the order to attack.' Google finds that too - <http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/11/messages/689.html>. My point was to direct Pawel to Google for the basic meaning of idioms like this, so that his requests to the group for help relate more to usage, where we are (I hope) better equipped to assist than Google. SignatureMolly Mockford They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.) | At 23:31:31 on Thu, 24 Nov 2005, John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> | wrote in <n3shf.2959$xP2.911@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] | this, so that his requests to the group for help relate more to usage, | where we are (I hope) better equipped to assist than Google. I use Google or google.co.uk searching only uk sites, for the meaning of words. The search term "word" Definition, gives a long list of links, giving many definitions of "word". SignatureDave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Sick and tired of Junk Snail Mail? Register with http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ IME it works :-) >> At 00:09:53 on Fri, 25 Nov 2005, apprentice <mailpawel@wp.pl> wrote >> in <3c321$4386484a$d4ba586d$20189@news.chello.pl>: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > say was, Stand up, Guards! and then gave the commanding officers the > order to attack.' Posh bugger ;-) |
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