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Tommy Tran
2021-09-07 12:09
Onwards and upwards adverb phrase binomial
Becoming progressively successful; keeping progressing and succeeding
We couldn't be happier. Everything is moving onwards and upwards.
Global tourism continues to climb onwards and upwards over the past year.
My career is moving onwards and upwards since last month.
The general trend of international migration is onwards and upwards
1. If a person "looks up something", he/she tries to find a piece of information about it, typically from a reference book or on a computer.
2. If something "looks up", it is getting better or improving.
3. To contact someone if you are in the area where they live
The origin of this phrase is unknown. It was initially used in a speech given by Frances Anne Kemble to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lenox Academy in Massachusetts:
"A sacred burden is this life ye bear:
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win."
Do you see anything wrong?
Said when one is looking back on something enjoyable or worthwhile in the moment that it was happening even though it was impermanent
The party came to an end, but it was fun while it lasted.
