hold/keep (your) end up

British, informal

to do what you are expected to do.

After my maternity leave, I made sure I kept my end up at work. I didn't want to give my boss an excuse to complain about working mothers.

• be champing at the bit
• be chasing tail
• be chasing your tail
• be chief cook and bottle washer
• be child's play
• be chilled to the bone
• be chilled to the marrow
• be chomping at the bit
• be climbing the walls
• be close to home
• be close to the bone
• be close to the mark
• be coining it
• be cold comfort
• be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• be coming apart at the seams
• be comme il faut
• be compos mentis
• be conspicuous by absence
• be conspicuous by your absence
• be cooked to a turn
• be cooking on gas
• be cup of tea
• be cut from the same cloth
• be cut to the bone