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Examples:lit. three ignorant cobblers add up a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom—Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up late Dec on Gregorian calendar)—word and actions coincide (idiom); live up to one's word—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others—lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom); fig. honesty prevails throughout society—bellows for blowing up the fire in a furnace etc—lit. the more you touch things up, the darker they get—making up a group, forming a troupe (idiom); in large numbers—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement (1963-66), a nationwide movement clean things up in the fields of politics, economy, organization and ideology (historical)—all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)—fig. not live up to one's promises—fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up—live up to expectations [idiom.]—lit. fettered by fame and locked up by riches (idiom); tied down by reputation and wealth—lit. hold up to the skies—seal up (a door with a paper seal, or a document)—give up one's wrong way of life and turn to a better one—use old friends to climb socially (idiom); to suck up to sb—lit. late-comer lives above (idiom); the up-and-coming youngster outstrips the older generation—lit. push up paper prices in Luoyang (idiom); fig. sensational popularity of a new book—lit. let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities—round up to the nearest integer—Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin—lit. go up to heaven or down to Hades; fig. whichever way, I don't care—fig. fail to live up to a boast—give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished—see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth—the master leads you the door, the rest is up to you—parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)—go back to sleep (instead of rising up in the morning)—follow up a victory and press home the attack—laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles—break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one—head high, chest out (idiom); keep up one's spirits—fig. give up evil ways and return to virtue—too weak stand up to the wind (idiom); extremely delicate—open up (to the outside)—bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution—give up life for righteousness (idiom, from Mencius); to choose honor over life—give up one's private interests for the public good (idiom); to behave altruistically—make up a shortfall in the number of people—Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty—lit. not dare pull oneself up high (humble term)—North China Incident of October-December 1935, a Japanese attempt set up a puppet government in north China—lit. swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities—the name does not correspond reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation—curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power—writing up of official or judicial documents—fig. attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it—fail to live up (to expectations)—build up the country through thrift and hard work [idiom.]—lit. see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up [idiom.]—look up to sb. hopefully— |