Down
Pick up
Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.
Both terms in one sentence
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The old "Bill Gates Wealth" page, which dates from a time when Microsoft's stock price kept soaring upward with no end in sight, measured the rate at which Bill Gates earned money in units of how much money it would not be worth Bill Gates' time to bend down and pick up. E.g.
Source: Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure - Similarly, you can't go down to the store and pick up a can of consideration or a box of blue; they are attributes of things, but do not exist independently of them.
Source: Hypostatization - This results in the possibility that Jerry Lawler may be the father, but Springer shoots that down because Jerry likes to pick up his chicks from recess.
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