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单词 turn it up
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turn it up
b. transitive. slang (chiefly British). To give up, abandon (an activity). Formerly also intransitive: †to throw up or abandon one's work, to give up (obsolete). Now only in imperative as turn it up: used as a warning to desist, esp. from objectionable talk; ‘shut up’, ‘come off it’.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign
resign1395
resignate1531
to go out1642
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
to turn up1819
to pull the pin1860
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to snatch it or one's time1941
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it!
to do waya1325
stay1601
go and eat coke1669
to leave off1785
whoa1838
drop it!1843
cut1859
turn it up1867
to come off ——1896
to chuck it1901
knock it off!1902
cut it out1903
nix1903
break it down1941
to shove it1941
leave it out!1969
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. at Turn up To desist from, or relinquish, any particular habit or mode of life, or the further pursuit of any object you had in view, is called turning it up.
1867 Era 20 Oct. 6/4 Mr Vance, in the character of the ‘Chickaleary Bloke’, called the gentleman in the gallery a ‘yob’, and..advised him to ‘turn it up’.
1887 Punch 30 July 45/2 Let us turn up this barney, and toddle ashore for some grub.
1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xiii. 173 Smith..‘turned up’ one day, in other words refused to labour on the works.
1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons i. 22 He has done twenty-five years in prison. But five or six years ago he ‘turned the game up’.
1945 J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits i. 6 Turn it up, will you... You're arguing with yourself.
1991 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 7th Ser. Episode 4. 204/1 Del. Wait a minute. Maybe Trigger organised this! Boycie. Oh turn it up, Del Boy. Trigger couldn't organise a prayer in a mosque.
2001 H. Collins No Smoke vii. 103 Barney blushes, bowing his head boyishly—‘Aw turn it up, Maw. Godsakes, man,’ he jokes—‘A plastic raincoat in summer?’
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