Hop up meaning in English
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Definition
Hop up (onto the horse, Arthur): Mount, get on, climb up onto (the horse, Arthur)
to hop: to jump, to spring on one foot
Examples
- "Right, if you'd like to pop your shirt off for me and hop up onto the bed."
- "I suppose I am. So, why don't you hop up onto the table so I can check your vital signs?"
Exercise 1
"...pop your shirt off for me and hop up onto the bed"
This phrase could be rewritten " your shirt and the bed".
This phrase could be rewritten " your shirt and the bed".
"...pop your shirt off for me and hop up onto the bed"
This phrase could be rewritten "Remove 1 your shirt and get on 2 the bed".
This phrase could be rewritten "Remove 1 your shirt and get on 2 the bed".
1 Remove: When the doctor asks Philip to "pop off" his shirt, she is asking him to remove it, or to "take it off". "Pop your shirt off" is an informal expression.
1 Unbutton: To "unbutton" a shirt is to "undo" its buttons. This isn't what the doctor is asking Philip when she tells him to "pop off" his shirt.
1 Lift up: To "lift (something)" is "to raise it". The doctor is not asking Philip to lift up his shirt, but to remove it entirely.
1 Put on: "To put on a shirt" expresses the opposite meaning of "to pop (a shirt) off". If someone "puts on" a shirt, they are getting dressed.
2 get on: When the doctor asks Philip to "hop up" onto the bed she wants him to get on, or to sit on the bed. "To hop" is to make a small jump, and the verb is often used idiomatically with different post-positions to indicate different types of movements: hop in, hop out, hop up, etc. Note that we can also "get on a bus", "get on a bike", or "get on a train".
2 get off: To "get off (of the roof)" refers to descending from a location, object or person. If one person is laying on top of another, one of them may say "get off of me". We could also say "get your feet off the table", which is a command to remove one's feet from the table. The doctor is actually asking Philip to get on the table, and not to descend from it.
2 jump up and down: Although the verb "to hop" does describe a small jump, the doctor asks Philip "to hop up onto the bed", which expresses a different meaning.
2 help me to move: This is incorrect. To "move" a bed is to "push" it somewhere else, or to change its position. This is unrelated to the verb "to hop up".
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