get-up-and-go
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In a 2010 interview with The Times, Miller suggested he would be pleased if that get-up-and-go mantra stood as his legacy.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2018
We are a run-and-gun, get-up-and-go kind of people who for too long have felt the responsible institutions of society are trying to put us flat on our backs.
From US News ● May 4, 2016
If we had that get-up-and-go on the black-on-black crimes, maybe we could stop some of this.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2015
A mood of passively expecting the state to provide rather than a resilient atmosphere of ambitious, get-up-and-go dominates culture.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012
I was baffled, initially, by what seemed like a certain lack of get-up-and-go on the part of my fellow workers.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Some Sundays I get up and go to Mass. Other Sundays I sit around reading the papers or head out to the ski slopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
One fighter, he says, finally told them: "OK, get up and go."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
I just wanted to get up and go, “No, I’m here!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
It’s up to the rest of us to get up and go out.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Every now and then he would yawn and stretch, get up, and go to sit with his great bicolored head on Aurelia’s lap.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
