get-up-and-go

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NOUN
  1. enterprising or ambitious drive
    Europeans often laugh at American energy
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How To Use get-up-and-go In A Sentence

  • Here we have a company with entrepreneurial spirit and get-up-and-go.
  • Mercury moving forward should infuse you with oodles of get-up-and-go.
  • He is a new man, full of vigour and get-up-and-go.
  • This carbon-free Grand Prix injects ingenuity and sustainability back into the races, starring get-up-and-go “karts” with a little H2O in their tailpipes. Kevin Gardner | Inhabitat
  • I agree that someone with the get-up-and-go to cross half the planet and then work all night in a pie factory is a lot more use to us than some dole-eating chav. on December 11, 2009 at 12: 59 am Jabadaw God Help Us. The Pies Are Gone! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Ambition, a spirit of get-up-and-go and a sense of pride in our community were all we had to rely on to drag ourselves up to a better standard of living.
  • The responsibility to show a bit of get-up-and-go, and to look to the future in any decisions we make about climate change in this country, rests on the National Party's shoulders.
  • The one thing that changed it for us though, and this was kind of a dealbreaker - we couldn't just do get-up-and-go trips. Why I Choose to Live Carfree « PubliCola
  • I now have my get-up-and-go back, which has meant I've been able to do things like giving my son a helping hand with his new bike.
  • There was certainly more get-up-and-go about the team today.
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