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What does ‘Add Up’ mean?
Related forms: Transitive and separable. Intransitive:
To sum together all the constituent parts of something. To come to the total of.
“Could you add these figures up, please?”.
If something does not add up this means that a situation, or series of events do not make sense, we can not understand why they have occurred.
“I have repaired all the leaks in this bicycle tyre, but the air is still escaping, it just does not make sense”.
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To add up
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