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In English you turn off the switch, set off the alarm, and switch off the alarm again. And they have the nerve to tell others what's logical? :P

(Also, I hope you're not turned off by my remarks. Or turned on. That would be awkward.)



Your remarks may not be a turn-on, but as it turns out, I wouldn't turn them down. Or away, unless they turned up again. They set me off. It's clear that it was a set up; in fact it's starting to set in. They're spot-on; but if they weren't, they still wouldn't be spot-off.

It's fun to think about how we sit down, we sit up, we stand down, we stand up, we lie down, we don't lie up. Except according to Merriam-Webster, who claims that we do when we stay in bed. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20up)


That's a fun set of examples. I think lie up is used naturally sometimes, but I may have just been thinking about it hard enough to fool myself.

"She had obviously not slept, the events of the previous day being so disturbing. 'You were lying up all night,' I said the next morning."


Ah, interesting. I may have heard it in that context before, hard to tell.


You can be laid up sick in bed, but I've never heard "lie up."




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