get up to sth
UK— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
C2 to do something, often something that other people would disapprove of:
She's been getting up to all sorts of mischief lately.
I wonder what those two got up to yesterday?
More examples
- What have you been getting up to?
- They got up to all sorts of things on the hen night.
- What did you get up to on your holiday?
- She usually gets up to some sort of trouble at school.
- Tell me what you got up to at the weekend.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bad and wrong behaviour
- act
- act out
- act up
- angel
- astray
- at your worst idiom
- be no angel idiom
- cross
- go round
- impossible
- incorrigible
- indecorous
- kick
- rail
- rough
- step
- step out of line idiom
- step/be out of line idiom
- terrible twins
- try it on idiom
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