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up a tree

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  1. Up a Tree

    Up a Tree is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Up a Tree

    Completely cornered, yet defiant; the allusion is to the refuge of a tree-branch against the attack of a bull stationed beneath it.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of up a tree in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of up a tree in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of up a tree in a Sentence

  1. Albert Einstein:

    Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

  2. J. P. Morgan:

    You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

  3. Jean Genet:

    What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

  4. Beth Czyryca:

    Maybe he’s sitting up in a tree where no one can see him, or he broke both his legs and can’t walk and is waiting for someone to find him.

  5. Chairman Billy Payne:

    While we learned last year that the absence of the Ike's Tree... did not impact scoring average on the hole, who knows what the future holds or what future chairmen might decide to do with these priceless specimens.

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