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PRONUNCIATION OF COME UP SMILING

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COME UP SMILING

come to grief
come to hand
come to life
come to light
come to light with
come to one´s knowledge
come to pass
come to rest
come to terms
come to the party
come to the surface
come unglued
come unstuck
come up
come up against
come up to
come up with
come upon
come what may
come with the first four ships

WORDS THAT END LIKE COME UP SMILING

ailing
boiling
calling
ceiling
failing
filing
mailing
parasailing
piling
prevailing
profiling
railing
retailing
sailing
smiling
tailing
tiling
trailing
unveiling
veiling
wailing

Synonyms and antonyms of come up smiling in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «come up smiling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COME UP SMILING

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The translations of come up smiling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «come up smiling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拿出微笑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

llegar sonriendo
570 millions of speakers

English

come up smiling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुस्कुराते हुए आए
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخروج يبتسم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

придумать улыбается
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chegar sorrindo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাসি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

venir avec le sourire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Datang tersenyum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kommen lächelnd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

笑顔を思い付く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

미소를 올
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Teka munggah esuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đưa ra mỉm cười
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிரித்துக்கொண்டே வா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हसणे येतात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gülümseyerek gel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

venire sorridente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

się uśmiecha
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придумати посміхається
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

veni zâmbind
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταλήξει χαμογελαστά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kom glimlag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

komma upp ler
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

komme opp smilende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of come up smiling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COME UP SMILING»

The term «come up smiling» is used very little and occupies the 175.818 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COME UP SMILING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about come up smiling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME UP SMILING»

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Sport in Australian Drama
Come Up Smiling is ignored by even specialised books on ... Come Up Smiling lacks most of the geographical or national icons so beloved of local film makers of the time, but treats women as individuals and protagonists. Romance coupling  ...
Richard Fotheringham, 1992
2
The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
smiling. come up smiling recover from adversity and cheerfully face the future. informal 1989Woman's Realm But despite her ordeal courageous Kelly has come up smiling and is now looking forward to a bright future.
Judith Siefring, 2004
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Whyte-Melville, M. or N., 1869. come tricks , see COME, 3. come up smiling . To smile though (esp. if heavily) PUNISHED: boxing; from ca 1860. 2. Hence, to face defeat without complaining or flinching: coll; from ca 1870. John Strange Winter ...
Eric Partridge, 2003
4
Withnail & I: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were ...
... but come up smiling Tuesday morning'.6 Marwood suffers from a panic attack induced by drug abuse at the beginning and end of the film. He also seems knowledgeable in the effects of speed judging by his voiceover dialogue in the ...
Thomas Hewitt-McManus, 2006
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... and come up smelling of roses, explains the idea behind it. smile come up smiling recover from adversity and cheerfully face the future. informal 1989 Woman's Realm But despite her ordeal courageous Kelly has come up smiling and is now ...
John Ayto, 2010
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Come up Smiling, verbalphr. (pugilistic).—To laugh (or grin) at ' punishment '; hence (generally) to be superior to rebuff or disaster ; to face defeat without flinching. 1887. JohnStrange Winter, That Imp,p. 67.And yetcome up smiling atthe end of ...
Anonymous
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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition
... smelling of roses, come up smiling, come up to scratch, come up trumps, come up with the goods, conjure up, couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery, cover up, crack up, cracked up to be, cut up rough, dead from the neck up, death warmed ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2006
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Man's Courage: (New York Classics)
Did your husband tell you? He knew I was going to come up." Again she glanced around. "I asked your husband if I could come up." Smiling at Marya, she seated herself at the table. The two studied each other in silence, one's expression rigid  ...
Joseph Vogel, 1989
9
The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema
Hall produced all of these and, with the exception of Come up Smiling, also directed them. His style was unremarkable and unobtrusive, very much in the Hollywood classical tradition. However, Hall was no one man show and it is important to ...
Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, 2009
10
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
he'd only come up smelling of violets (occ. roses), an almost proverbial c.p. applied to somebody consistently and remarkably lucky: C.20, perhaps earlier. ( P.B.) come up smiling. To smile though (esp. if heavily) 'punished': boxing; from ca.
Eric Partridge, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME UP SMILING»

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THAT REMINDS ME: Grand Forks' bane, 1905: Not mosquitoes, but …
It is built to take hard knocks and come up smiling." The ad was inserted by Maewan & Daugherty, agents, 105 N. Third Street, Grand Forks. «Grand Forks Herald, Jun 15»
2
Fifi Box shows her class by shrugging off trashy mag onslaught and …
In fact, whatever challenges Fifi Box has faced, she has always come up smiling and full of good humour. So perhaps it's time that we all cut her ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jun 15»
3
Hill retiree, 69, dances to the beat of many drummers
“They always come up smiling.” When he's not contra dancing, Blum attends Mostly Waltz once a month in Broomall and Waltz Time twice a ... «Chestnut Hill Local, May 15»
4
Murray Lands First Clay Title
If Kohlschreiber finished the dogfight yesterday feeling battered and downcast, one man who has come up smiling is Jonas Bjorkman, the ... «The New Indian Express, May 15»
5
Manitoulin Island marks Parkinson's Superwalk
There are good days and bad days and you have to come up smiling.” Ms. Proulx encourages all Islanders with PD, as well as family members ... «Manitoulin Expositor, Apr 15»
6
'I've been disconnected to some degree from AFL'
"Our theme song when I was there had a line in it, 'We'll come up smiling, whether we win or lose.' It's not in there now and it shouldn't have ... «The Age, Apr 15»
7
A Fine Madness screened at the library April 18
... beleaguered wife (Joanne Woodward) plunge into a series of daffy disasters from which he still manages to come up smiling. That is, until he ... «Estes Park Trail-Gazette, Apr 15»
8
No stopping zone
... campaign that we wrote: “Christopher Pyne, one suspects, could be caught in a tornado of excrement and piranhas and still come up smiling. «The Australian, Mar 15»
9
Exclusive: The man who shipped himself across the world
... [to be able to do this] and Reg was that very special person - he seems to have a tolerance for pretty much anything and come up smiling". «3News NZ, Mar 15»
10
Hillary Clinton Is Turning Into Richard Nixon and Bill Belichick
... to come up smiling for another two-year vitriol-storm. Forget Nixon: she's beginning to rival Bill Belichick in the oozing-contempt department. «RollingStone.com, Mar 15»

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