cut up about (someone or something)

cut up about (someone or something)

Anguished because of someone or something. I'm so cut up about Paul's death that I've been crying all day. Peggy seems awfully cut up about that phone call. She must have gotten some pretty bad news. I didn't even know she liked that actor, but she is really cut up about his sudden death.

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cut up (about someone/something)

mod. emotionally upset about someone or something. She was all cut up about her divorce.

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