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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A ramp is a slope and the expression ramp up can mean an increase in effort, with perhaps some degree of urgency.
Rumping up suggests, to me at any rate, bringing in all available resources including those left behind. Additional effort from one’s hindquarters might be useful in the swift ascent of said incline.
5G is rumping up all over the world even before it was forecasting but to exploit its full potentiality Network slicing is mandatory and not yet adopted in …
Will check if rumping up the fans speed to 1200rpm will make the temp go down a lot.
Authorities should keep a close eye on their financial sectors (bank and non-bank). It’s never too late to rump up the supervision and regulation of the…
Why would Nintendo cripple the system at launch then all of a sudden massively rump up the speeds?
We are also likely to maintain the 6,000 centers to rump up the rate of vaccination to ensure that the vaccines do not go to waste,” Agyeman- ...
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Hmmm. Any connection between donkeys and phrases like “pony up”? (Old Spanish joke: the donkey is one of the first to come to be named, so Adam gives him a name starting with “a”: asno . After he forgets his name 3 or 4 times and keeps coming back to be reminded, is instructed to repeat it ten times and still manages to forget it again, Adam says in exasperation: “Ay, pero ¡tú sí que eres burro!” “You are a donkey/so stupid!” Pure asininity in English, I guess.)
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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My son reminds me of the phrase “get your rear in gear”, which would fit very well with rumping up.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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