up with the lark
Awake and out of bed early in the morning.
"Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow," said Mrs Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
lark
/lɑːk/
noun 6name 6verb 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
known
VERB + LARK
called, chosen, heard, married, name, notice, pop, test
LARK + NOUN
artist, erhardt, herald, multi-hit, papa, piano
PREP.
around, on, up, with
ADV.
away, retrospectively
Definitions
noun
1
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
2
Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
3
One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
4
A jolly or peppy person.
Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
verb
1
To catch larks (type of bird).
to go larking
noun
1
A frolic or romp, some fun.
‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’
“Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.”
2
A prank.
doolittle. […] [T]hanks to your silly joking, he leaves me a share in his Pre-digested Cheese Trust worth three thousand a year on condition that I lecture for his Wannafeller Moral Reform World League as often as they ask me up to six times a year. / higgins. The devil he does! Whew! [Brightening suddenly] What a lark!
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
day lark
One who gets up early in the morning or goes to bed early.
rise with the lark
To be awake and out of bed early in the morning.
on a lark
In a frolicky or frivolous manner; on a whim.
When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that your are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between th
Example Bank
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Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
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to go larking
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‘Ha! ha!’ laughed Master Bates, ‘what a lark that would be, wouldn’t it, Fagin? I say, how the Artful would bother ’em wouldn’t he?’
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“Oh, dear, no,” said the young Englishman; “my cousin was coming over on some business, so I just came across, at an hour’s notice, for the lark.”
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Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture.
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[T]hey laugh at us old boys,” thought old Pendennis. And he was not far wrong; the times and manners which he admired were pretty nearly gone—the gay young men “larked” him irreverently […]
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