up there
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
In a position of prominence or importance.
prep_phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, there.
Example Sentences
- "I'd always considered astrology bullshit, right up there with the legal, real estate and banking businesses in terms of thieving ass-sucking charlatanry, but it's clear I've been doing it a misservice."
- "“It is the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I think I’ve ever seen,” said the Palace chairman, Steve Parish, at half-time, going on to talk about the possibility of actually killing a fellow professional. It was certainly up there, with shades of Harald Schumacher at the 1982 World Cup. That was, Schumacher admitted, a deliberate assault designed to stop Patrick Battiston scoring."