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They packed up and left (= put everything into
boxes/suitcases).
He worked himself up into a frenzy (= went completely
mad).
The hotel was full up (= completely full).
Books and papers were cluttering up my desk (=
making it impossible to work on).
In Spanish, while the notion exists, I have been able to
find fewer metaphorical expressions corresponding to it.
Estoy hasta la coronilla de todo (= completamente
harto).
Se subió a la parra (= Se enfadó muchísimo).
Montó en cólera (= Se enfadó muchísimo).
TABOO WORDS WITH THE ‘UP’ PARTICLE
In line with COMPLETENESS IS UP, taboo words in
conjunction with the ‘up’ particle often seem to express some
absolute state of affairs.
Let’s have a piss-up (= get absolutely drunk)
That’s fucked up everything (= spoiled everything
beyond redemption).
The whole thing’s been a cock-up (= an absolute
disaster).
What a balls-up! (= a complete fiasco).
That’s buggered it up (= utterly ruined it).
HAPPY IS UP; SADNESS IS DOWN
As we saw at the beginning of this chapter, Lakoff and
Johnson (1980) posited that the HAPPY IS UP metaphor is
due to our erect position when we are feeling happy and the
SAD IS DOWN metaphor to our drooping posture in times of
sadness, exemplified in “My spirits rose” and “ I’m feeling
down” (p.15). In both English and Spanish, there are many
such metaphorical expressions.
HAPPY IS UP
English
There’s a buoyant atmosphere.
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