[sodpoodle]

Now I'll shut UP!

[DaiHuy]

what about “is”

[Diogenesis]

we will chop down the tree to chop it up.

[Olog-hai]

Sometimes the first activity is “US”. And do people sleeping on the top bunk wake down?

This thread is worth a UP gas-turbine locomotive.

[aquila48]

I didn’t see “up yours” in the list of examples.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

His dog up and died, he up and died.....

[PIF]

Now I’ll shut UP!

—
UP yours
(not personal)

[monkeyshine]

Went up in a plane to fly up the coast to catch up with some friends up there.

[Dacula]

Try to spread mustard on a foot-long Polish sausage, polish the furniture.

From The Car Guys NPR radio show.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Start cataloguing all the meanings of the three letter word “fix”.

[JimRed]

Up- arise, rise, elevate (as in “up your game”)

[ImpBill]

Reads like a George Carlin routine. entertaining.

[laker_dad]

If you’re from Michigan, you go to the UP.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Something like this isn’t strange to native English speakers until they start thinking about it. I teach ESL and I know what a challenge this can be to people who are learning English. Over the years, I have come up (there is is again) with various explanations that I hope make these oddities easier to understand.

One day we had this sentence — “They were afraid when the alarm went off.” I asked the students, “Was the alarm off or on?” They all said it was off. No, I told them, it was on. They looked at me as if I were crazy. In thirty-plus years of teaching, I had never had to explain this, and, in sixty-plus years of speaking English, had never really thought about it, so I told them I would enlighten them at the next class, which I did. I had to think about some other ways we use, “go off,” and that helped me to explain it.

[DuncanWaring]

Don’t forget the UP - Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

[seowulf]

It was a better world when we used to lock up criminals and, sometimes, even string them up.

[Fresh Wind]

Why is it that “slow up” and “slow down” mean the same thing?

[Exit148]

What’s up with this thread?

[Wuli]

comprehensively

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up