up there

English

Prepositional phrase

up there

  1. In a position of prominence or importance.
    • 2012, Elson Quick, Baddha:
      I'd always considered astrology bullshit, right up there with the legal, real estate and banking businesses in terms of thieving ass-sucking charlatanry, but it's clear I've been doing it a misservice.
    • 2025 March 1, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      “It is the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I think I’ve ever seen,” said the Palace chairman, Steve Parish, at half-time, going on to talk about the possibility of actually killing a fellow professional.
      It was certainly up there, with shades of Harald Schumacher at the 1982 World Cup. That was, Schumacher admitted, a deliberate assault designed to stop Patrick Battiston scoring.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up,‎ there.

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