ALL U-P!

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 7

ALL U-P!

There have been complaints from time to time that certain words have been overworked. “Camouflage” is a word that is greeted with a groan nowadays ; it is so hackneyed. “Good-bye-ee” is almost as bad. “Stunt” has been done to death. But there is a word we all use — and use continually'. It is the most overworked word ’ in the dictionary. It consists of two letters, U and P. We wash up, we get fed up, we wake up, avc get up, we button up, our things, do up our hair—if we are women —avc buck up, hurry up, light up, Ave eat up our 'breakfast, drink up our coffee, clean up the house, ring up a friend, live up to our ideals, pick up this I and that, save up for a rainy day. We stir up strife if we don’t shut up, catch up a friend, line up for jour w r ages, travel up to town —even if it’s down hill all the way—we back up the Tommies —and get their backs up if we | don’t ; by giving up luxuries we make our enemies sit up, throw up the sponge, give up the ghost—and we know it’s all up if avc can’t.