(up and) about

(up and) about
*(up and) about & *up and around
out of bed and moving about. (*Typically: be \(up and) about; get \(up and) about.) •

I'm up and about, but I'm not really well yet.

The flu put Alice into bed for three days, but she was up and around on the fourth.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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