standing up

Meaning

"Standing up" means being on your feet or rising from sitting or lying.
It can mean defending yourself or others when used with "to" or "for".
Used with an object, it can mean failing to show up for a meeting or date.

Synonyms

standing vertical erect rearing stand up stick up

Antonyms

breaking sitting settling seating bowing squatting
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Examples

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ogden Nash

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. Ernest Hemingway

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. Rosalind Russell

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' Gertrude Stein

He who really wants to die will not complain if he is buried standing up. Mexican Proverb

Words in the phrase

standing up

Close letter words and terms

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