getting better or improving.

Things are certainly looking up now that the tourists are coming back.

Usage notes: often used humorously in the phrase things are looking up when a situation is not good:

Well, we're out of food but at least we've got a bottle of wine – things are looking up!

• two's company three's a crowd
• two sides of the same coin
• en route
• enter into the spirit of
• enter into the spirit of something
• enter the fray
• err is human.
• err is human, to forgive, divine.
• err on the side of
• err on the side of caution
• err on the side of something
• esprit de corps
• et al.
• even better
• even if only
• even so
• even stevens
• every bit as
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
• Every dog has its day.
• every inch of
• every inch of somewhere
• every inch the
• every inch the something
• every last