Live it up
Pack up ( off to pack suitcase now -couple of nights away)
Look you up (when I come back)
Catch up (with the thread then)
park up
make up as in get back together and makeup as cosmetics
send up (practical jokes etc)
oh and
sent down (prison)
low down
down town (even if it is up a hill!)
"For goodness sake Turn it UP " meaning “Please quieten DOWN”
Or, if not UP or DOWN, we can go ACROSS–AS IN
ACROSS THE STREET
ACROSS THE POND (Atlantic)
Emily
xxx
GETTING IT ACROSS
ACROSS THE BOARD
wondered across
I like the ideas of ‘value’ that attach to ‘up’ & ‘down’. Mostly ‘up’-phrases have more positive connotations than ‘down’ - as can be seen from the sample here. Many cultures/cosmologies have positioned ‘hades’, ‘hell’ or similar, below the everyday world - & this kind of ‘geography’ has impact on the languages used in everyday worlds. Analysis of the CoE Book of Common Prayer, for example, clearly shows this idea of vertical hierarchy that has coloured Anglo thinking since the middle ages at least (sorry, PhD thesis). So all the positive connotations of ‘up’ are easy to understand.
What’s even more interesting to me is that on certain occasions ‘down’ carries greater value. But usually in ‘counter-cultural’ contexts - like ‘down-beat’, which can imply a certain kind of cool, or ‘upside-down’ which can just as often imply ‘good’ re-adjustment as ‘bad’ mess-up - and which is what happens to our lives when we are diagnosed with cancer. Upside-down - I like to think of suppressed energy escaping from the dark, getting an airing and putting its ingenuity to work: a good thing.
That’s an interesting analogy, and choosing a positive image is a healthy approach to most challenges, not only BC.
Some exceptions, though…
Beaten up, stood up, held up, tied up, keyed up, uptight, screwed up… sounds like a really bad day!
Hei palomino - even the exceptions are interesting. Keyed up, uptight, screwed up - all come from a ‘countercultural’ perspective. If you replace the ‘up’ for ‘down’ in the remaining examples there are some subtle shifts in meaning that are kind of fascinating. Would you prefer to be tied up or tied down, held up or held down etc.? Or, probably, none of the above. I’m just playing here. There’s a thesis that suggests that, while our spoken language is obviously the result of certain culture-specific experience and so on, language also dictates how we can think about the world that we experience; literally, WHAT we can experience. I remain on the fence. Above it all. Up there.
it is more likely that cancer has slapped us ACROSS the face
put DOWN our guards
until we decidedly
rose UP to demand it shrink & die.
together
Emily
xxx
Absolutely - the subtle difference between seeing the glass half-empty or half-full?
Lyn xx
HI,
let’s hope we are all on the UP and UP! (even when we are having a down day).
Ann
And the cancer goes DOWN, DOWN till it is so insignificant it is non-existant
therefore,
we will be UP with some chamgpagne!
Back to the words???
we are OVER the fact that it has hit us
we will OVERcome
emily
I feel like ive climbed UP and OVER the hill with my cancer!!!
Just come back UP to London from walking on the South DOWNS which also have UPs in them as my legs can testify.
Hi
I am UP late due to steroids its chemo day!
I am DOWN to the last chemo in my first 4-chemo cycle!!!