Word info

go upstairs

Verb

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ upstairs.

(cricket, of an umpire) To request a decision by the third umpire (traditionally by making a sign of a TV set with the hands)

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. M. C. Escher

'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep. Odette Annable

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. Wellington Mara

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