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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Sit Up

(for anyone) (To). To await the return of a person after the usual hour of bed-time.

“His own maid would sit up for him.” —George Eliot.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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