What actually means “tip up”?
In the Financial Times this quote is quoting the editorial which “Shinzo Abe will not revive Japan by rewriting history…” When
the Japanese prime minister tips up at the next month’s meeting of the Group of 8 advanced industrial nations, it is a fair bet his fellow summiteers will want to get to know him.
I always emphasize mine. What is the use of the phrase that I have put in italian? Does it have anything to do with football?
Can you suggest a blog about your experience of living without a car?
What particle phrasal verb supports the meaning equivalent to “showed up”: Broadcom and Qualcomm reveal chips for Android 4?
0 and Windows
8 Broadcom, a firm that spent an hour of our time at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last year not allowing us to ask questions directly to its technical folk, tipped up at the show with single-core and dual-core implementations of ARM Cortex A9 processors.
AMD A8-7650K tips up in Euroland
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A new Kaveri desktop SKU has tipped up in Europe and the A8-7650K appears to be good value for money.
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the best
moment when Katie Couric finally suspected that the king of Tonga is only Mohamed Al Fayed?
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Eric Partridge offers two definitions for the word “tip up” but neither seems at all relevant to the quoted situation: tip up, or tip up.
To hand out, ‘fork out, exp. Money: low:—1859… 2. To hold out; low and nautical:—1887 Esp. AS in Baumann: tip up your fist, reach or give me your hand! , shake hands. You know how to.
As Barmar says in a comment above, the context of the phrase “tips up” in the OP’s question indicates that its intended meaning is “shows up” ” However, if this usage is idiomatic in the UK, it hasn’t yet become widespread in published print writing. Google Books searches for the phrases “tip up at,” “tips up at,” “tips up at,” and “tipping up at” uncover exactly two on-point matches. How do people get lost in the
endless patterns of upward thinking when making decisions and in the current direction? Then it really is an awful virus, and it does slowly kill people off mentally. Imconnected to the meaning of their work, to their new role, or their new goals, the energy ebbs away, until the shell of a human tips up at work each day and emptily carries out its task. My experience is that of a cyborg, and of a pig sucking the shell out of their own mind; how should I deal with it? The rich dynamism of a challenging and engaged career suddenly seems a rare thing.
Miranda Glover, Soulmates, (2007): The war
in Iraq rumbled on, but now Israel was fighting Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, too, and the region seemed set for a period of even greater instability, of civilian carnage. Will followed the news eagerly, seemed energized by the escalation of violence and spent countless hours with Ralph, discussing the latest attacks, calculating their impact, economically, environmentally and, most significantly, from a humanitarian perspective. He was tipping up at Polly’s place later and later at night and she noticed that he was drinking more. Many days could go by when he no longer mentioned Emi.
An email asking about “tip/tips/tipped/tipping up in” brought two additional matches. I ran my second set of searches as soon as possible, but this time the search was rejected. From Robert Ashton, Waking Up in London (2003) :
Then tipped up in London. I’ve got a straight job here, drumming in bands there. I can’t quite go to school. Why did they move to the Observer (of The Oregon Independent in 1965)? I know it doesn’t work so strongly, but it does. When I came to London in 1983, I found myself playing a lot of straight-ahead jazz, : This zone had not been her intended destination when they
had turned the time key that morning, and her voice was too slow. … and another situation had apparently gone awry. It is important for a person to get dressed and befitted for a walk around the world. However, he had intended for them to spend the day in around 2050, when the emissions had at last been cleared and the atmosphere was fit to breathe again. She had not expected to tip up in 2020, when the world put the chaos back into chaos theory.
Notwithstanding the Americanized spelling “energized” in Glover’s excerpt, Soulmates was “First published in Great Britain,” according to the book’s copyright page; the other three books appear to have been published only in the UK. So it seems that “tips up” is a British idiom of fairly recent vintage, that can be used with at or in (and possibly other prepositions) and has the meaning “shows up” or “pops up. ”
“Granting” is “the name of my own company”
What particle phrasal verb supports the meaning equivalent to “showed up”: Broadcom and Qualcomm reveal chips for Android 4?
0 and Windows
8 Broadcom, a firm that spent an hour of our time at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last year not allowing us to ask questions directly to its technical folk, tipped up at the show with single-core and dual-core implementations of ARM Cortex A9 processors.
AMD A8-7650K tips up in Euroland
Not bad for u20ac100
A new Kaveri desktop SKU has tipped up in Europe and the A8-7650K appears to be good value for money.
What was
the best
moment when Katie Couric finally suspected that the king of Tonga is only Mohamed Al Fayed?
What is “Dalla” but “Do We Do”?
