get-up-and-go

How To Use get-up-and-go In A Sentence

• In truth, they may have the get-up-and-go traction to battle winter weather, but they cannot stop any better than a car without all-wheel drive. Winter tires: Comparing stopping distances in snow
• I said,'Renée used to say I didn't have enough get-up-and-go. MR STARLIGHT
• They're interesting people, outdoors people with a bit of get-up-and-go.
• If you spend about $2.50 daily on your get-up-and-go latte from your fave café, you can save a lot of paper and a lot of bucks (almost the equivalent of a Grover Cleveland) if you just opt for your home brew instead. Bill Chameides: Save Those Presidents
• He says "America's get-up-and-go entrepreneurial culture outlived the frontier," even though he represents the kinds of big business/government combines that attacked small businessmen and ranchers on our frontier. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent
• Ideally, I would like to work in an energetic workplace with fast turnaround and lots of get-up-and-go.
• What the horse lacks in get-up-and-go it makes up for in how good you'll look when you're riding it.
• He was the only candidate who had any get-up-and-go.
• Researchers began to investigate why: Does this correlation exist because these children have more 'get-up-and-go,' or is there actually something about the arts that changes, increases, and improves cognitive skills? Ellen Galinsky: Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education
• I want my life to be organised, but I never seem to have the get-up-and-go to do the organising.