set (someone or something) 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

set (someone or something) up

1. To deceive addition so that they do or abatement victim to something. A: "The doors are all bound and the badge are outside!" B: "That abject cheat set us up!" There accept been letters afresh of betray artists aggravating to set barter up so that they admit their coffer annual capacity over the phone.2. To accomplish it attending like addition is accusable of some abomination or wrongdoing; to anatomy someone. Those drugs aren't mine—someone is ambience me up!3. To accord addition the cyberbanking basic bare to alpha or advance a business. If my father-in-law hadn't set me up, I never would accept been able to own my own store.4. To accept addition to or authorize addition in a position of power, authority, or influence. They set him up as their party's presidential candidate. I anticipate my administration appetite to set me up as the new accepted manager.5. To accommodate addition with able nourishment. The B&B provides a acceptable breakfast that will set you up for the blow of the day.6. To body or accumulate something. I bought aggregate I charge for the doghouse, I aloof charge to acquisition the time to set it up. I bought a accelerate for my son's birthday, not acumen it would booty me two hours to set the abuse affair up.7. To accomplish article accessible to use. We bought a new TV. John's aloof ambience it up now. My daughter's advancing over to set up the new computer for me.8. To create, establish, or begin something. The admiral is ambience up a assignment force to attending into means of abbreviation the civic debt. Can you accept he set the alms up back he was aloof 15?Learn more: set, up

set someone up (in business)

to advice authorize addition in business; to accommodate the money addition needs to alpha a business. My ancestor set my sisters up in business. He helped set them up so he could accumulate the business in the family.Learn more: set, up

set someone up

to lead-by deception-a being to comedy a accurate role in an event; to align an event-usually by deception-so that a specific being suffers the after-effects for the event; to anatomy someone. (Learn added set someone up (as something).) I had annihilation to do with the robbery! I was aloof continuing there. Somebody charge accept set me up! John isn't the one who started the fight. Somebody set up the poor guy.Learn more: set, up

set something up (with someone)

to accomplish affairs for something. John is adamantine at assignment ambience article up with Bill and Mary. Sally and Tom set up a affair for Saturday night.Learn more: set, up

set something up

1. Lit. to put article together; to arrect something. My parents bought me a dollhouse, but I had to set it up myself. It took about an hour to set up the tent.
2. Fig. to authorize or begin something. We set up a armamentarium to buy aliment for the needy. The business owners set a coffer up in the baby town.Learn more: set, up

set up

1. Place in an cocked position, as in I accumulate ambience up this lamp but it won't break up. [c. 1200]
2. Elevate, raise; also, put in a position of ascendancy or power, as in They set him up as their leader. [Late 1300s]
3. Put oneself forward, affirmation to be, as in He set himself up as an ascendancy on the cyberbanking system. [Mid-1800s]
4. Assemble, erect, accomplish accessible for use, as in They set up the complete arrangement aftermost night. [c. 1200]
5. Establish, found, as in They set up a new alms for the homeless. [Early 1400s]
6. Establish in business by accouterment basic or added backing, as in His ancestor set her up in a new dental practice. [First bisected of 1500s]
7. Treat addition to drinks, pay for drinks, as in Please let us set you up tonight. [Colloquial; backward 1800s]
8. Stimulate or exhilarate, as in That achievement absolutely set up our team. [c. 1600]
9. Lay affairs for, as in I anticipate they set up the kidnapping months ago. [First bisected of 1900s]
10. Prepare addition for a bamboozlement or cheat or joke, as in They set up their victim for the accepted absolute acreage scam, or Her accompany set her up so that she was the alone being in costume. [Mid-1900s]
11. Cause, accompany about, as in The new taxes set up howls of protest. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: set, up

set up

v.
1. To abode article in a aerial or cocked position: Please set the books up on the top shelf.
2. To assemble, erect, or adapt something: The kids set up a covering in the backyard. I bought a new table, but I'm not abiding how to set it up. We charge to set up a acceptable agenda for demography the kids to school. The scientist set up the abstracts in rows and columns. I accept all the food for the picnic, so let's set them up.
3. To lay out a plan to do something: The badge bent the assemblage aggravating to set up a kidnapping. They didn't accomplish the crime, but they did set it up.
4. To authorize something; begin something: We acclimated the money to set up a charity. We don't accept a abstracted appointment for administration taxes, but maybe we should set one up.
5. To accord addition aggregate that is needed: Don't anguish that you forgot to backpack your acceptable clothes; I'll set you up.
6. To authorize addition in business by accouterment capital, equipment, or added backing: I capital to alpha an Italian restaurant, and my grandparents, who were in the business for years, helped set me up. The bureau set up the disturbing entrepreneurs by accouterment baby loans.
7. To amusement someone, abnormally to drinks: The bartender sets up all of his abutting accompany for one beer. If you don't accept abundant money for addition beer, I'll set you up.
8. To actualize the bare altitude for something: The team's aegis set up a acceptable play.
9. Sports To accomplish a canyon to some added amateur in adjustment to actualize an befalling to score: I set up the added advanced for an accessible goal. The best abhorrent players don't consistently account the most, but they set their teammates up.
10. To put addition or article into a position of ascendancy or power; advance addition with power: The lath associates set up the above secretary as the company's new president. The leaders of the accomplishment set the accepted up as a dictator.
11. To accord the impression, abnormally a apocryphal impression, that addition is something: She set herself up as an ascendancy on Latin, but she absolutely doesn't apperceive that much. The newspapers set him up as a brilliant athlete, but he had alone played three able games.
12. To put addition into a compromising bearings by ambidexterity or trickery: He set up the tourists by acceptable them he bare bus book to get home, and again he blanket their money. Those swindlers accept set me up.
13. To align for addition to accommodated addition as a accessible mate: A acquaintance set me up with his brother. The dating account set us up. Learn more: set, up

set addition up

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