add up

Meaning

1. Oxford47% of films

   to seem reasonable; to make sense

2. Oxford42% of films

   to calculate the total of two or more numbers or amounts

3. Oxford11% of films

   to increase by small amounts until there is a large total

In the movies · 24

• Man's voice: "Bill, can you add up these numbers for me?"It's Such a Beautiful Day2012
• Yeah, well, it all adds up, doesn't it?Mona Lisa1986
• "so if I told them once, I told them a million times, these numbers do not add up"Ted2012
• uh expenses add upJurassic World Dominion2022
• Something doesn't add up.Velvet Buzzsaw2019
• Things don't all add up.To the Bone2017
• Not really, just add up the bills.Oppenheimer2023
• Eh doesn t add upPokémon Detective Pikachu2019

Learn it in full scenes

• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• add insult to injury
• added to this
• add in
• add on
• add to
• add up to

More phrasal verbs

• fill in
• start off
• look through
• run away from
• build up
• walk out
• buckle up
• keep up with
• see to it that
• live on
• finish with
• get across