| 释义 |
up-and-comingˌup-and-ˈcoming adjective [only before noun]   - an up-and-coming Broadway actor
- an award for the best up-and-coming comic actress
- Many up-and-coming young players have trials for the national football team.
- An up-and-coming composer would probably welcome the opportunity to write music in a religious idiom.
- But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers.
- Henry Fitzhugh aims for a deliberate mix of obscure or up-and-coming artists with the glitterati of the art world.
- It is an opportunity to expand the responsibilities of John Langley, an up-and-coming salesman getting some great results in the north.
- Live work for an up-and-coming artist is vital.
- Susannah York was a young up-and-coming leading lady who had a major part in the film.
- The role of Elaine Robinson went to the pretty, auburn-haired, hazel-eyed 25-year-old Katharine Ross, an up-and-coming star.
to start to be successful► take off if a product, company, your job etc takes off , it suddenly starts being successful: · Her singing career took off after an appearance on Johnny Carson's "Tonight' show in America.· Before you knew it, 11 companies had settled here, and the place really took off. ► be on the way up to be becoming richer, more successful etc: · He's not that famous a musician at the moment, but he's definitely on the way up.· starter homes for young couples on the way up ► up-and-coming: up-and-coming artist/player/executive etc an artist, player etc, especially a young one, who is getting more and more successful and who will probably soon be famous: · Many up-and-coming young players have trials for the national football team.· an award for the best up-and-coming comic actress ► be going places if you say that a person or company is going places , you mean that they are already achieving success and will probably be even more successful in the future: · Alvin was part of it all now. Only 24, and he was going places.· This company is clearly one that is going places. ► be on the up and up British to be getting more successful all the time: · A gliding club that started in a local farmer's barn says business is on the up and up.· We lost at Oxford, but since then we've been on the up and up and won our last four games. likely to become successful or popular:  up-and-coming young artists |