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gas up
Idioms and Phrases
Supply a vehicle with gasoline, as in I want to be sure to gas up before we go . James M. Cain used this term in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934): “I went to gas up a car.” [ Colloquial ; c. 1930 Also see tank up .Example Sentences
But by and large, the formula works like this: house down, wages down, gas up, food up equals ticked off consumer.
She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank wearily into an easy chair.
Suppose you send a current of gas up into this sewing-thimble: it can find an exit only by turning backward.
Then you let bubbles of the gas up into the jar, and they turn out the water and take its place.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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