add up (to sth)
add up (to something)
1. Lit. [for a set of figures] to equal a total.
These figures don't add up to the right total!
2. Fig. [for facts or explanations] to make sense. (Considering facts as if they were figures.)
Your explanation just doesn't add up!
热门单词
- above and beyond (sth)
- accommodate so with sth
- a cold fish
- a crying need (for so or sth)
- a crick in one's neck
- a fix on sth
- Again(, please).
- a good sport
- a heartbeat away from being sth
- a hush fell over so or sth
- air out
- (all) dolled up
- all manner of so or sth
- allocate
- all the way
- a lot of nerve
- a love-hate relationship
- a mile a minute
- an absent-minded professor
- a nice break
- An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.