get-up-and-go
Example Sentences
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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
“I thought I married a man with some get up and go to him, who didn’t just want to stay on the bottom all his life!”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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