“up on the”

The following 2 entries include the term up on the.

get up on the wrong side of the bed

idiom

: to be in a bad mood throughout the day

the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children

idiom

used to say that children often suffer for the bad things their parents do


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  • a pencil broken in half on top of a test answer sheet
  • The business’s new computer system proved not to be a panacea.
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