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sum-up
[ suhm-uhp ]
noun
- the act or result of summing up; summary.
sum up
verb
- to summarize (feelings, the main points of an argument, etc)
the judge began to sum up
- tr to form a quick opinion of
I summed him up in five minutes
Word History and Origins
Origin of sum-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Present the substance of, summarize, as in They always sum up the important news in a couple of minutes , or That expletive sums up my feelings about the matter . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
His one-line pay-offs at the end of each show, summing up both the fans' mood and the match, may have looked seamless.
Their relationship can be summed up by a scene where Trump gifts Cohn some diamond cufflinks for his birthday.
One North Carolina man to whom Lemon spoke summed up his reason for voting for Trump this way.
The Dodgers played it smartly, if weirdly, on a night when the Yankees’ valiant effort could be summed up in two words.
Trump’s answer to that question can perhaps be summed up in the three-word catchphrase he’s deployed on the campaign trail: “Drill, baby, drill.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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