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gets the wind up

gets the wind up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get the wind up.

Meaning of get the wind up

Verb

get the wind up (third-person singular simple present gets the wind up, present participle getting the wind up, simple past got the wind up, past participle got the wind up or gotten the wind up)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To become frightened or disturbed.
    • Mustn't answer the door, mustn't touch the telephone, mustn't stir out of the house—I ask you now, George, what's likely to be the end of this sort of thing when her people get the wind up?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Questions about gets the wind up

What is gets the wind up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gets the wind up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get the wind up.

Words near gets the wind up in the dictionary

  1. gets the show on the road
  2. gets the thumb
  3. gets the vapors
  4. gets the vapours
  5. gets the wall
  6. gets the wind up
  7. gets the word out
  8. gets the worst of it
  9. gets the wrong idea
  10. gets there
  11. gets through

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