get up to
English
Verb
get up to (third-person singular simple present gets up to, present participle getting up to, simple past got up to, past participle (UK) got up to or (US) gotten up to)
- 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?
- 2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, quoting Mary-Kay Wilmers, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer:
- 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".
Translations
to do something, especially something that you should not do
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See also
Further reading
- “get up to”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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