go up |
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| Lexical unit types: | phrasal verb |
| Topics: | increasing and decreasing, appearing and disappearing |
| Source domains: | moving upwards |
| Particles: | up |
| Similes: | - |
| Verbs: | go |
| CEFR Levels: | B1 | Synomyms: | - | Antonyms: | go down | Definition: | 1. (of prices) to increase, become higher 2. When lights go up in a theatre or cinema, they are switched on. | Examples: |
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. |
Motivation: |
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. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: turn up, turn down, go down, go off, show up, come up, put away, go out, come out