| 词汇 | on one-s uppers |
| 词源 | on one’s uppers. On one’s uppers refers to being impover- ished, destitute, as in “He was on his uppers before he got that job.” The Americanism is first recorded in 1891 and refers to someone walking in shoes with holes in the soles, uppers refer- ring to bare feet above the shoe soles. |
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