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get-up-and-go

[get-uhp-uhn-goh] / ˈgɛtˌʌp ənˈgoʊ /




get up and go








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“This is going to go on for a while and good luck to the people who have to get up and go to work tomorrow morning.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Some Sundays I get up and go to Mass. Other Sundays I sit around reading the papers or head out to the ski slopes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

One fighter, he says, finally told them: "OK, get up and go."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

It’s up to the rest of us to get up and go out.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

And then I get up and go to the bathroom.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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