up-or-out
向上或向外,上或下,或上或下,上或者下
Definitions
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- : of or relating to a system or policy of employment in which one is either promoted or discharged: the pressures of an up-or-out promotion system.
Examples
Really, is it any wonder that fluoride should freak people out?
For a while yoga and pilates classes were sought out at luxury gyms like Equinox.
On Thursday, Garcetti ruled himself out of the race to succeed Boxer.
Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
And he was gone, and out of sight on the swift galloping Benito, before Father Gaspara bethought himself.
Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"
Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.