on the up

Meaning

1. increasing or improving

   Business confidence is on the up.

In the movies · 1,131

• This better be on the up and up.The Longest Yard2005
• Be careful on the way up.Mary Poppins Returns2018
• You want me to prove everything's on the up and up?Monsters, Inc.2001
• 'Up! Up! Up!Triangle of Sadness2022
• Up! Up! Get up!The Boy in the Striped Pajamas2008
• There's full bottles, I saw 'em on the way up.Everest2015
• - We passed it on the way up. - I remember it.Triple Frontier2019
• - Up! Up! Up! -19172019

From the same entry

• be up to
• not be up to much
• up against
• up and down
• up and running
• up before
• up for
• up there
• up to
• up and down
• up yours
• up sticks