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Stand up with

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Verb
  1. 1
    To publicly support (someone). idiomatic, transitive

    "[I]t was important as a woman to stand up with other women and raise our voices against the injustice."

  2. 2
    In a wedding ceremony, to serve as best man or as maid of honor or as an official witness for (someone). idiomatic, transitive

    "It was a quiet wedding. . . . Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, who is a warm personal friend of the bride, stood up with her, and Mr. Cramer, who is connected in an editorial capacity with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, and Mrs. Cramer, were the only other witnesses."

  3. 3
    To begin to dance with (someone); to dance with (someone). archaic, idiomatic, transitive

    ""If Mrs. Gilbert wishes to dance," said he, "I shall have great pleasure, I am sure—for, though beginning to feel myself rather an old married man, and that my dancing days are over, it would give me very great pleasure at any time to stand up with an old friend like Mrs. Gilbert.""

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