look up and down something

look up and down something
look up and down something
to gaze up and then down something, such as a street. •

We looked up and down the street and saw no cars, no houses, and no people.

Mary looked up and down the highway, but she could not find her lost hubcap.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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