go up |
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| Vrste leksičkih jedinica: | phrasal verb |
| Teme: | increasing and decreasing, appearing and disappearing |
| Izvorne domene: | moving upwards |
| Čestice: | up |
| Usporedba: | - |
| Glagoli: | go |
| ZEROJ razine: | B1 | Sinonimi: | - | Antonimi: | go down | Definicija: | 1. (of prices) to increase, become higher 2. When lights go up in a theatre or cinema, they are switched on. | Primjeri: |
1) Food prices went up. Buy now before the price goes up! 2) The film ended and the lights went up. The lights went up and the audience left in silence. |
Motivacija: |
the conceptual metaphor MORE IS UP; LESS IS DOWN Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. |
Similar lexical units: turn up, turn down, go down, go off, show up, come up, put away, go out, come out