add up to

Idioms and Phrases

Amount to, signify, as in The smooth airline connections, luxury hotel, and fine weather added up to the best vacation we'd ever had . [Early 1900s] Also see add up .

Example Sentences

While the creative language sheds little daylight on what those programs actually entail, it seems that Musk wants to take the axe to a range of scientific projects sponsored by the government that he may or may not understand and which add up to far less than any federal entitlement program.

From Salon

But his actions, experts say, did not add up to active interference in the election outcome.

From Slate

The combined findings by scientists at The Ohio State University add up to potential trouble for people deficient in the protein, called IFITM3 -- especially if an avian or swine flu were to gain hold in humans and cause widespread disease.

From Science Daily

Mass deportations would also likely trigger another round of inflation—the Peterson report believes that it could add up to 3 percent on top of whatever the baseline is.

From Slate

“Those small things, if you add them up in the cumulative effect ... that would add up to like a whole attitudinal change for me. People are going to give you more or offer many, many things to you. And I think when you become accustomed to all of that, that’s where greed follows.”

From Los Angeles Times