to tee up
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5.2
- phrasal verb
- /ti ʌp/
- Informal
:
preparar
- So you tee this up perfectly for the next point pumps.
- want to tee up
- help you tee up
- just tee up
They're copping to it, as it were, is simply them teeing up to knock you down.
- They're copping to it, as it were, is simply them teeing up to knock you down.
- And I think Rabbi Sharon did an unbelievable job in teeing this up.
- This is mind blowing to me that they actually teed this up.
- We teach these guys how to broach those conversations, how to tee those conversations up.
- We call back a clip and Sal will write, you know, dialogue for me to tee up the clip.
- Although, you know, I have a song teed up in my phone if my if the plane starts to go down, I'm going to spend the last few.
- This is it sounds like I'm teeing up a joke, but if you had to choose her or producing records every day.
- I became really good at teeing up a topic, letting it linger here while telling you a story and coming back around and closing that.
- I mean, it's and you, you teed it up perfectly, which is what I was saying behind the scenes is I'm choosing you, not I need you any of that type of stuff.
- And I have to say, Tom, one of the best things that really you and I talked about is really what we're doing and and I'll I'll let you tee that up.
Examples
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The key moment: Van Susteren, clamoring for a silver lining, teed up a rhetorical question about Obama.
Blog text (4) -
I became really good at teeing up a topic, letting it linger here while telling you a story and coming back around and closing that.
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You know, tee yourself up for the future, you know, as much as you can.
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I think you kind of teed yourself up and then took the swing too, by the way.
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I had a couple of slides that we were going to tee up just for you to have going forward.
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You and I are going to jump to a video that I recorded for you where I tee up these five lies and I knock them down with you one after the other.
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So we have teed up a game that we are going to play that's going to help you help yourself with the perfect selfie.
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But that's basically it for what we wanted to talk about this week, which means that we should tee it up for trivia trivia.
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The team is working hard to tee up all the details for the conference next month.
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Before we start the project, let's tee up our goals and objectives clearly.
Synonyms
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1.0
Make something ready for use or an event
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2.7
To assemble and prepare equipment or objects so they are ready to use
95
3.6
To get something or yourself ready
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3.7
To get ready for an activity by preparing people or equipment
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4.1
To plan something ahead of time
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4.3
To decide what to do before something happens
How Prepared
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to place a golf ball on a tee' follows directly from combining 'tee' (to set a ball on a tee) with the particle 'up' (to raise or place), so the action is compositional and literal. This standard verb + particle pattern is predictable and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings and basic golf context.
Etymology
Tee up comes from golf. Imagine setting a ball on a small stand, a tee, to get a clean first shot; because the ball is made ready on the tee, to tee up something means 'to prepare' or 'arrange' it for the next step.