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get up to en · VERB

Meanings

1. To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.
   • Recently he's been getting up to all sorts of mischief.
   • I haven't seen you for a while. What have you been getting up to?
   • The windows on one side of the large open-plan room overlook the nurses' accommodation for the nearby University College Hospital[…] The LRB's editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers, likes this view. She enjoys "seeing what the nurses get up to". 2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, quoting Mary-Kay Wilmers, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer:

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Translations (15)

fi touhuta (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · cmn 弄出 (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · ru вытворя́ть (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · de begehen (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · gl cometer (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · ca cométrer (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · pl kombinować (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · fi ryhtyä (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · es cometer (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · fr commettre (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · cmn 幹 /干 (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · it commettere (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · cmn 搞出 (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · ru вы́творить (to do something, especially something that you should not do) · cmn 做 (to do something, especially something that you should not do)