Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Cattle up
English answer:
cattle prices are up?
Added to glossary by
Yvonne Gallagher
Sep 23, 2012 17:19
11 yrs ago
English term
Cattle up
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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
"One day I galloped over to the store with a fine bunch of blue verbenas that I cut out of a herd of wild flowers over on Poisoned Dog Prairie. Uncle Emsley looked at 'em with one eye shut and says:
"'Haven't ye heard the news?'
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"'Cattle up?' I asks.
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Thank you!
"'Haven't ye heard the news?'
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"'Cattle up?' I asks.
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Thank you!
Responses
| 4 +1 | cattle prices are up |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 5 | "Is the cattle rounded up?" |
juvera
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian, Irish) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
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cattle prices are up
It literally is the "news" he expects to get in return.
More context necessary but then it becomes clear. This is the continuation:
"'Willella and Jackson Bird was married in Palestine yesterday,' says he. 'Just got a letter this morning.'
"I dropped them flowers in a cracker-barrel, and let the news trickle in my ears and down toward my upper left-hand shirt pocket until it got to my feet.
"'Would you mind saying that over again once more, Uncle Emsley?' says I. 'Maybe my hearing has got wrong, and you only said that prime heifers was 4.80 on the hoof, or something like that.'
prime heifers 4.80= cattle prices up
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Note added at 4 hrs (2012-09-23 22:15:42 GMT)
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http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2E8HTEOS2...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2012-09-23 22:19:57 GMT)
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should be a question mark as in text
"Cattle prices are up?" (prices may not be up at all but this is what the question means)
More context necessary but then it becomes clear. This is the continuation:
"'Willella and Jackson Bird was married in Palestine yesterday,' says he. 'Just got a letter this morning.'
"I dropped them flowers in a cracker-barrel, and let the news trickle in my ears and down toward my upper left-hand shirt pocket until it got to my feet.
"'Would you mind saying that over again once more, Uncle Emsley?' says I. 'Maybe my hearing has got wrong, and you only said that prime heifers was 4.80 on the hoof, or something like that.'
prime heifers 4.80= cattle prices up
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Note added at 4 hrs (2012-09-23 22:15:42 GMT)
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http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL2E8HTEOS2...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2012-09-23 22:19:57 GMT)
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should be a question mark as in text
"Cattle prices are up?" (prices may not be up at all but this is what the question means)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
4 hrs
juvera
Specializes in field
"Is the cattle rounded up?"
The story starts with this sentence:
"While we were rounding up a bunch of the Triangle-O cattle in the Frio bottoms a projecting branch of a dead mesquite caught my wooden stirrup and gave my ankle a wrench that laid me up in camp for a week."
Rounding up cattle from summer pastures was a regular task in the autumn at the place and time the story is about, and first Jud thinks that the news Uncle Emsley is referring to may be that the cattle is rounded up. So he asks: "Cattle up?"
"While we were rounding up a bunch of the Triangle-O cattle in the Frio bottoms a projecting branch of a dead mesquite caught my wooden stirrup and gave my ankle a wrench that laid me up in camp for a week."
Rounding up cattle from summer pastures was a regular task in the autumn at the place and time the story is about, and first Jud thinks that the news Uncle Emsley is referring to may be that the cattle is rounded up. So he asks: "Cattle up?"
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