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Locking up or down
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Why do prisons have a lock DOWN but my wife asks me if I have locked UP for the night?
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The 'down' version is, I believe, an Americanism. Even the 'up' version hasn't been around for that long, the earliest recorded version of it dating back only to the start of the last century. Prior to that, the basic 'lock' sufficed.
We see the same apparent discrepancy in phrases such as 'slow up/slow down', both of which just mean 'slow'.
We see the same apparent discrepancy in phrases such as 'slow up/slow down', both of which just mean 'slow'.
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