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Bit of a long winded one so I'll start at the beginning:-- At work today we were talking about what we're doing over Christmas and I said I'd be going up town on Christmas eve. The phrase 'up town' was questioned by my colleagues who said they'd never heard it to describe going out to pubs and clubs in town in the evening. I wondered if it was local to my town (work a few miles away in a different town) and posed about it on Facebook to which one person responded "You have a lot to learn lol" I had no idea what he meant by this so replied with a question mark to which he responded "Yeah lol". So two questions-- Is 'up town' a local phrase?
And can anyone shed any light on what the Facebook bloke was on about as he is clearly enjoying keeping me guessing!
And can anyone shed any light on what the Facebook bloke was on about as he is clearly enjoying keeping me guessing!
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I don't know anything about a drug connection, but the phrase usually refers to your geographical location.
If you live in Leeds you may go"down" to London for the weekend because London is south of Leeds.
If you live in Southampton you would go "up" to London which would be North.
I have never heard this phrase used in any other way
If you live in Leeds you may go"down" to London for the weekend because London is south of Leeds.
If you live in Southampton you would go "up" to London which would be North.
I have never heard this phrase used in any other way
when I was a child, and certainly in my mother's era, you always said you were going up to London, or down to the country, irrespective of whether you lived north or south of the city. London was always Up.
I first came across Up Town in "Up Town Top Rankin'" - but I never queried what it meant!
If we're going to the local town, we say we are going "down town"... this is Kent.
I first came across Up Town in "Up Town Top Rankin'" - but I never queried what it meant!
If we're going to the local town, we say we are going "down town"... this is Kent.
Boxtops, that's absolutely right; but it's a rather dated idiom. It comes from the railways, where the 'up line' was always the one for trains going towards London, irrespective of its actual compass direction, and the 'down line' was the one away from London. It passed into common speech quite quickly.