to "course-correct"

[Victor Steinbok]

Is anyone going to up the ante?

     VS-)

On 10/4/2011 9:56 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
> Just yesterday I heard, "Well, he finally man upped."
>
> Looking at Google books, I found the (unrelated but interesting) double-inflected phrase "upping and leaving."
>
> --Charlie

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