when the balloon goes up Idiom, Proverb

a checkup

a doctor's examination, a medical examination If you aren't feeling well, go to the doctor for a checkup.

a cut-up

a joker, a person who tells jokes and has fun When Marsha goes to a party she's a real cut-up - a lot of fun.

a dust-up

"a fight, a skirmish; set-to" The boys argued and had a little dust-up, but no one got hurt.

a fill-up

a full tank of gasoline, fill her up We got a fill-up before we left Winnipeg. The truck needed gas.

a leg up

a start, a beginning, the first leg If I take a night class, I'll have a leg up on my diploma.

a pick-me-up

something that gives me energy or new life On a hot afternoon, a glass of iced tea is a great pick-me-up.

a send-up

a mockery or satire, a takeoff on The speaker did a send-up of the the way Canadians talk.

a stiff upper lip

(See keep a stiff upper lip)

act up

not work right, give pain or problems My stomach is acting up today. I don't feel well.

add up

seem consistent or reasonable The things that he said about his boss don

when the airship goes up

When the bearings becomes serious, critical, chaotic, or troublesome. Our analysts accept been admiration a bazaar blast for months now. If we don't get alter our assets soon, we're action to be in austere agitation back the airship goes up. My parents' accord has been on the rocks for years. I aloof achievement I'm out of the abode back the airship goes up.Learn more: balloon, goes, up

when (or before) the airship goes up

back (or before) the action or agitation starts. informal The airship alluded to is apparently one appear to mark the alpha of an event. 1959 Punch The all-embracing rules of war are apt to be waived back the airship goes up. Learn more: balloon, goes, up

when the balˈloon goes up

(informal) back the agitation or important accident begins: I don’t appetite to be there back the airship goes up.Learn more: balloon, goes, up

when the airship goes up

When some action or action begins. This announcement dates from World War I, back the British arms would accelerate up a airship to arresting gunners forth the band to activate firing. In time the appellation was continued to any undertaking, such as the aperture of a store, the time a cloister affair begins, and so on. John Braine acclimated it in his atypical Room at the Top (1957): “Merely because I let you accord me a beery kiss in the Props Room, you anticipate the balloon’s action up.” The appellation may be dying out, however, at atomic on this ancillary of the Atlantic.Learn more: balloon, goes, up

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