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turn it up!
stop! AUSTRALIA, 1927 Originally “turn up” (to renounce), “turn it up” (to move home or, otherwise, change your life), hence the current meaning.- WATSON: Now, turn it up, will you. TAYLOR: Come on, let’s get on with the game. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 91, 1959
- She gave a cynical snort. “Well, that’s the first time for a long time I must say.” “Turn it up, Doll. Gin?” — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 119, 1959
- “Hey, turn it up, mate,” he concluded in higher key as a middy of beer spilled on the wrong side of his tartan shirt. “Sorry, mate.” — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 78, 1971
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