up the stairs
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- phrasal verb
:
por las escaleras
- I carefully carried the box up the stairs to the second floor.
- go up the stairs
- run up the stairs
- start up the stairs
He he's walking up the stairs slowly, right?
- He he's walking up the stairs slowly, right?
- So I see LeBron walk up the stairs, CJZ walk up the stairs.
- You walked up the stairs Because you can do that.
- And so she walked up the stairs and she closed the door.
- She got on the bus, walked the block, walked up the stairs, seamless.
- I'm scary and my mom came up the stairs and she says get onto the bed.
- And so she decides to take off running up the stairs, down the stairs.
- So yeah, they had this staircase where you'd walk up the stairs and there'd be a square platform.
- And then, let's face it, that video of him falling again up the stairs is embarrassing.
- I mean, literally came up the stairs crying.
- They had to cut it, carry it up the stairs, and then attach it on this wall.
- So what better way to see it than hiking all the way up the stairs to the top?
Examples
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She went up the stairs and never came back down.
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Through the office and up the stairs.
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And then up the stairs we go.
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Down the hall, up the stairs, first door on your right.
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Come on, get up the stairs!
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Now just take it straight up the stairs.
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"Excuse me," he said, walking past her, then up the stairs to the third floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
I was carrying the baby up the stairs.
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They're going up the stairs.
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Lettie shook her head sadly and started again up the stairs to her room.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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In a higher place or moving to a higher level
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On or to an upper floor of a building
Upstairs in the part of a house where the family lives
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional from 'up' (moving to a higher place) combined with 'stairs' (structure for moving between levels); the article 'the' is only grammatical and does not change the compositional meaning. This upward-motion locative/ directional pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Up the stairs shows a simple picture: up means higher and stairs are the steps you climb. So it means 'to a higher floor' in a building.