upright Idioma
sit bolt upright
Idiom(s): sit bolt uprightTheme: POSITION
to sit up straight.
• Tony sat bolt upright and listened to what the teacher was saying to him.
• After sitting bolt upright for almost an hour in that crowded airplane, I swore I would never travel again.
bolt upright
bolt uprightPrecisely perpendicular, erect in carriage, as in She sat bolt upright in her pew. This expression was used in slightly different form by Chaucer in the late 1300s: “She was ... long as a mast and upright as a bolt” (The Miller's Tale).
upright
uprightsee bolt upright.
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