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  1. up the riveradverb

    To prison.

  2. Etymology: A reference to Sing Sing prison on the Hudson River.

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  1. Up the River

    Up the River is a prison comedy film starring Preston Foster and Arthur Treacher and featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The movie was directed by Alfred L. Werker and is a remake of a 1930 film with the same title directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in the roles subsequently played by Foster and Tony Martin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of up the river in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of up the river in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of up the river in a Sentence

  1. Masaharu Ishizawa:

    The river has never flooded like this before, and some houses have been completely swept away. I think it might be time to redraw hazard maps or reconsider evacuation plans.

  2. Chelsea Peters:

    Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

  3. Thomas Steinbeck:

    A man who falls into a fast-flowing river is wise to swim with the current.

  4. Christie Helminger:

    The flow of the river is so fast; the debris of the river -- you can't control it.

  5. George Teague:

    The river is already above flood stage and will continue to rise through today and tomorrow, the situation will get worse before it gets better.

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