单词 | to tell up |
释义 | > as lemmasto tell up to tell up intransitive. To amount to. Later also without construction: to mount up, to accumulate. Now rare. ΚΠ 1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 45 Put it in the savings' bank, and it will tell up to something. 1862 J. T. Bourne Let. 5 May in F. Vandiver Confed. Blockade Running Bermuda (1947) 16 The very high freight..and other incidental expenses has made it tell up considerably over the low rate heretofore charged. 1903 Bankers' Mag. Feb. 197 A fractional economy would result, which in the aggregate would tell up to a large sum. 1914 Sketch 22 July 96/1 The settlement with the men cost about a fifth of a penny per mile, and soon they 'll have to pay something like three-eighths of a penny for road-upkeep. It soon tells up, you know. < as lemmas |
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