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The period of time allowed for something is ended, as in Turn in your papers, students; time is up . This idiom uses up in the sense of “completed” or “expired,” a usage dating from about 1400.

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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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