I've got another one for you - you cut down a tree in order to cut
it up. I ran into some Germans who couldn't get over that phrase.
The more one thinks about that fabulous liitle word "up" the more
circles one's mind begins to turn. Up can be placed after almost any
verb and alter its meaning I reckon.
I wonder why it is:
- we "sew up" a seam or a tear, and never sew it down :)
- we "tie up" our shoe laces and parcels, but there's nothing "up"
about that at all
- we "scrub up" for surgery (and down and all around the twiddly bits)
Just a few
David in Ballarat
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