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 Up.Up the Spout. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Up a Tree.
 
Shelved; nowhere; done for. A ’possum up a gum-tree. (See under TREE.)   1
 


 Up.Up the Spout. 

 
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