send up
verb- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see send, up. · Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.
- To imitate (someone or something) for the purpose of satirical humour. · The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.
- To put in prison. · The judge sent him up for three years.
- To cause (something, e.g. sparks) to erupt. · Where the metal touched the asphalt, it sent up a shower of sparks.
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“In future you shall send up Wiggins alone to report, and the rest of you must wait in the street.
"Ralph," he said, "telephone down to the county police and ask the inspector to send up two constables.
Hudson that I should be glad if she would send up dinner for two as soon as possible."
When you pass Bradley’s, would you ask him to send up a pound of the strongest shag tobacco?
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