strung up
Related to strung up: being strung up
string up
1. To suspend someone or something aloft using a rope, string, cable, etc. In each usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "string" and "up." I'm playing an angel in our school play. They want to string me up from the rafters with a rope and have me come swooping into the scene. We used some fishing line to string up popcorn on the Christmas tree.
2. To fit strings onto a musical instrument. My dad taught me how to string up a guitar.
3. To piece something together coherently. I could still barely string up a single sentence in Japanese by the end of the class.
4. slang To kill someone by suspending them from a rope around the neck; to hang someone. The sheriff told us he'd string us all up if we ever showed our faces in town again. My great-great-grandfather was strung up for his involvement in the rebellion.
See also: string, up
strung up
1. Severely stressed, anxious, or emotional exhausted. Sorry for shouting at you, I'm just a bit strung up lately. I haven't been getting much sleep since our baby was born. I could tell she was really strung up from the heavy workload she'd taken on.
2. Experiencing the adverse effects of drug use or addiction, especially heroin. Even if you didn't see the track marks on his arm, you could tell he was strung up just by looking at his eyes. Jane's so strung up on pills that she can't even remember where she is.
See also: strung, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- string up
- string together
- string on
- tie up
- tied up
- have (someone) on a string
- have someone on a string
- tie (something) on(to) (someone or something)
- tie it on
- tie on