up there Idiom
somebody up there loves/hates me
an expression meaning that an unseen power in heaven has been favorable/unfavorable to you "Somebody up there loves me," he said as he found the money on the side of the road.
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slang An expression intimating that an unseen power in heaven, such as God, has been favorable or unfavorable to the one making the exclamation.
Look at all the money I won! I say somebody up there sure loves me! Look at all the money I've lost! I say somebody up there sure hates me!
somebody up there loves me
somebody up there loves me I am having very good luck right now; also, someone with influence is favoring me. For example,
I won $40 on that horse—somebody up there loves me, or
I don't know how I got that great assignment; somebody up there loves me. This idiom, generally used half-jokingly, alludes either to heavenly intervention or to the help of a temporal higher authority. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Also see
friend in court.
up there
Positioned aloft addition or article Can you ability that book up there? Oh, that's right, I put the plates up there.Learn more: there, upup there
in the aforementioned aerial category. 2000 Apollo Magazine According to Charles Moffett , Co-director of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby's, the painting is ‘up there with Dr Gachet ’, Van Gogh 's account of his doctor which was awash for $82.5 actor in 1990 . Learn more: there, up