mount up
Climb onto horseback
Mount up means to get on a horse or other animal for riding, typically used as a command or call to action.
The phrase evokes cavalry, westerns, and group departures on horseback: Mount up, men—we ride at dawn.
By extension, it applies to getting onto motorcycles or into vehicles.
Mount up also means to accumulate or increase over time: The bills are mounting up.
Evidence continues to mount up against the defendant.
- accrueIncrease by addition
- accumulateGather gradually
- amassCollect in quantity
- stack upCompare or accumulate
- bestrideSit or stand over
acquire · pile up · pile on · move · escalate · ramp up · aggregate · snowball · get on · hop on · saddle up · spiral · climb · proliferate · intensify · mushroom · balloon · ascend
mount updismount
Get off something ridden
get off · climb down · alight · hop off · descend
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