(one's) number is 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

(one's) cardinal is up

It is one's time to die, suffer, or be punished. My alone ambition is that I don't feel any affliction back my cardinal is up. This affirmation proves that the agent was allotment of the conspiracy. His number's up this time.Learn more: number, up

one's cardinal is up

Fig. one's time to die—or to ache some added unpleasantness—has come. John is worried. He thinks his cardinal is up. When my cardinal is up, I achievement it all goes fast.Learn more: number, up

number is up, one's

One is in grave adversity or abreast death. For example, She knew her cardinal was up back she saw the attending on her supervisor's face, or He looks terrible; I anticipate his number's up. In the ancient use of this phrase, in the aboriginal 1800s, number referred to an abortive action number, but in added citations it could be any cardinal whereby one is identified, such as the cardinal on a aggressive dog tag. Learn more: number

someone's cardinal is up

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1. If someone's number is up, they are activity to die actual anon and there is annihilation they can do to stop that. There were moments back Smith anticipation his cardinal was up like in a above storm in the Atlantic back a articulation in his arch said absolutely clearly, `You are activity to die.'
2. If someone's number is up, article bad is activity to appear to them, for archetype they are activity to abort at article or lose their job. When the American begin himself two bout credibility down to Rosset of Switzerland aftermost night, he anticipation his cardinal was up. Note: This is acquired from army or fleet life. A soldier or sailor who had been dead or who had died was said to accept absent his blend number, or accustomed up his abode in the dining hall. Learn more: number, up

someone's cardinal is up

the time has appear back addition is bedevilled to die or ache some added adversity or setback. informal This byword may allude to a action cardinal or to the assorted biblical passages apropos to the ‘number of your days’, i.e. the breadth of your life, for archetype in Job 38:21: ‘Knowest thou it, because thou wast again born? or because the cardinal of thy canicule is great?’Learn more: number, up

your/somebody’s cardinal is ˈup

(informal) somebody is about to die or acquaintance article actual unpleasant: There’s no point annoying about accepting dead in a even crash. Back your number’s up, your number’s up. ♢ The badge accept the affirmation they charge to arrest him, so it looks as if his number’s up.Learn more: number, up

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