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Definition of Size up

1. Verb. To look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail. "The customs agents size up the bags for drugs "; "He scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"

Definition of Size up

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To evaluate; to estimate or anticipate the magnitude, difficulty, or strength of something. ¹

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Literary usage of Size up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hampton and Reconstruction by Edward Laight Wells (1907)
"If it were not for fear of being accused of undue levity, I should be inclined to "size up" the situation by quoting a unique epitaph, the appreciative ..."

2. Intimate Letters from France During America's First Year of War by Elizabeth H. Ashe (1918)
"I have a desk in the Red Cross main office and will be able to size up the situation better in a little while. Paris, September 1, 1917. To L. McL. ..."

3. Intimate Letters from France During America's First Year of War by Elizabeth H. Ashe (1918)
"I have a desk in the Red Cross main office and will be able to size up the situation better in a little while. Paris, September 1, 1917. To L. McL. ..."

4. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1919)
"Can you size up the property, can you size up the enthusiasm, can you size up the expression of his soul, can you size up the industry, ..."

5. The Printer's Dictionary of Technical Terms: A Handbook of Definations and by Alexander A. Stewart (1912)
"The usual sizes of these presses print forms from business-card size up to 14x22 inches. The second class of presses is known as the flat-bed-and-cylinder ..."

6. In Pastures New by George Ade (1906)
"PEASLEY AND HIS FINAL SIZE-UP OF EGYPT ON the morning of our hurried pack up and get away from Luxor we lost Mr. Peasley. It was a half- hour before the ..."

7. In Pastures New by George Ade (1906)
"PEASLEY AND HIS FINAL SIZE-UP OF EGYPT the morning of our hurried pack up and get away from Luxor we lost Mr. Peasley. It was a half- hour before the ..."

8. In Pastures New by George Ade (1906)
"PEASLEY AND HIS FINAL SIZE-UP OF EGYPT ON the morning of our hurried pack up and get away from Luxor we lost Mr. Peasley. It was a half- hour before the ..."

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