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Fed up with up?

Curso Intermediário: vocabulário Por: Adir em 13/12/2007

Fed up withContinuando com a série dos vários significados de UP, há um pequeno texto de Thelma Wilson Cook, onde ela faz uma brincadeira com a palavra UP e seus vários usos com phrasal verbs em inglês. Foi publicado na edição de junho de 1986 da revista Reader´s Digest (Seleções).

Upon my word!

We all seem to be hung up on up. We put up with, use up, come up, butter up, line up, punch up and belly up.

Houses are opened up, lighted up, warmed up, cleaned up and closed up. Motors are fired up, gassed up and charged up. Boats are sped up, slowed up, tied up and laid up.

If we are mixed up, we must hurry up and shape up or we´ll be fouled up.

And, heaven help us, we drink up with 7-up.

If you think up other examples, don´t call me up. I´m up the wall with up. I give up!

Thelma Wilson Cook

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7 comentários em “Fed up with up?”

  1. ana laura disse:
    December 14th, 2007 at 6:44 am

    Gostei muito.Divertido, e bem escolhido.Parabens

  2. Henry disse:
    December 14th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    já escreveu sobre o ITALK por aqui???
    Achei ele interessante…. é como um orkut de idiomas.

    http://www.italki.com

    obrigado, Henry.

  3. Christopher disse:
    December 14th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    Hey all… great post Adir.

    Though we used to say ’slow up,’ occasionally, these days everyone says ’slow down.’

    Also to ‘be willing to do something’ is to ‘be up for it.’ A synonymous phrasal verb is to ‘be down to do something.’ So to be up for something is to be down to do it!

    -Christopher
    http://verdeamarelo.ning.com <— 1000 membros

  4. Open English disse:
    December 14th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    Cute - they forgot “speed up” ;)

  5. Adir (colaborador) disse:
    December 17th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    Hey Open English, they didn´t, it´s in the past participle: “Boats are sped up…”. Thanks for commenting and keep coming to visit English Experts!

  6. Daniel disse:
    March 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    I liked this explanation, but it isn’t so clear up to me, maybe there is a specifies rule for it. Is there any more rule about that? I heard many times…`this weekend came up!`

  7. Maria Helena L. Souza disse:
    October 21st, 2008 at 6:31 am

    gostei bastante desta explicação, valeu.

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