if a situation is looking up, it is getting better
to go and see someone who you know when you are visiting the place where they live
to try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer
A change in the rhythm of his father's breathing made him look up.
Finally, things are looking up for me.
He had to lean far back to look up at Abraham Sinclair's rich house.
I didn’t know what ‘loquacious’ meant and had to look it up in a dictionary.
Look me up next time you come to Sydney.
The producer didn't look up, seeming to pay inordinate attention to the signature he'd just written.
The squatting man, suddenly irritated, sat back to look up at her.
looks up
looking up
looked up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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