Definition
Vigorously launched or launching into an activity.
In Context
- "At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes."
- "[O]nly two alternative responses seem available: irrepressible up-and-at-'em chirpiness or apocalyptic hysteria."
- "I padded downstairs to find everyone up and at 'em, their day leaps ahead of mine."
- "Siddle is the sort of up-and-at-'em, tearaway fast bowler whom you imagine to train on raw red meat while running over a bed of hot coals."