help someone up (from something)

help someone up (from something)
help someone up(from something)
to help someone rise up from something; to help someone get up from something. •

She offered to help him up from the chair.

Elaine helped up her grandmother who was stuck in the chair.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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