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Double up (To)

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To fold together. “To double up the fist” is to fold the fingers together so as to make the hand into a fist.

I doubled him up. I struck him in the wind, so as to make him double up with pain, or so as to leave him “all of a heap.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Douay Bible
Double (To)
Double Dealing
Double Dutch
Double-edged Sword
Double Entendre (English-French for Un mot à double entente, or à deux ententes)
Double First (A)
Double-headed Eagle (The)
Double-tongued
Double up (To)
Double X
Double or Quits
Doubles or Double-walkers
Doubting Castle
Douceur. (French.)
Douglas
Douglas Tragedy (The)
Douse the Glim
Dousterswivel
Dout