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      [Verb]  | "add up" 


      1: to come to the expected total

      2: to form an intelligible pattern : make sense

      3: amount —used with to


      Origin: 1850 ;

      [Verb]  | "adds up (to)" 


      1: to be the same in meaning or effect;


        * e.g., " ... whether we take the 4:00 train or the 4:15 bus, it adds up to the same thing: they both get us back too late "



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      2: to have a total of;


        * e.g., " ... even if we pool all our money, it won't add up to enough to rent a beach house for a week "



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       [ "add up" ]

      1: Make sence of things.

        * e.g.,  ... There's something about his story that doesn't add up. 

       [ "It adds up" ]

      1: The price of something that will combine with other prices of other thing to form a larger lump sum.

        * e.g.,  ... Man: That express lane ticket's bill is so low I can afford to pay it 

       [ "It just all adds up…" ]

      1: It just all adds up… — The perfect ending to a really sad and bad story. The often “too late” realization that out actions are cumulative and quite binding. If you have ever asked someone how they ended up in a particularly bad situation and the answer is “ It just all adds up…”; then, that person is facing a situation that from which no doctor, lawyer, judge, jury, friend, or priest can extricate them. It’s time to face the music and dance; and pay those consequences. This statement Is often rapidly followed by : “Only god can judge me!” Which may or may not be true — if god is actually all Love and Forgiveness. But, we certainly judge ourselves; and, moments where “it just all adds up” cause us to momentarily reflect on both our lives and our actions.

        * e.g.,  ... Police: …But how did you end up killing 12 gang members; 2 innocent witnesses/bystanders; a pit bull; and an exotic South American parrot in a cage. Perpetrator: I just shot everyone and everything I saw; and, pandemonium broke out in me; It just all adds up…well…ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME!!!!!!! 

       [ "pop-up add" ]

      1: Obnoxious internet adds which will pop up in new windows when a site with them is visited.

        * e.g.,  ... I hate pop-up adds! 

       [ "pop-up add" ]

      1: A real shitty way to advertize products on the interenet. As your on the net, it comes out of nowhere and can freeze your computer.

        * e.g.,  ... Why don't these people who make pop-up adds realize that people hate their adds so much, they buy blockers to stop them from coming? 

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