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put up the umbrella vs Open the umbrella

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Put up the umbrella' is commonly used to refer to the action of raising or extending an umbrella, while 'open the umbrella' is used to describe the action of expanding an umbrella's canopy. They are comparable, but they convey slightly different actions.
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put up the umbrella

This phrase is correct and commonly used to refer to the action of raising or extending the umbrella.

This phrase is used when you want to instruct someone to raise or extend the umbrella to provide shade or protection from the rain.

Examples:

  • Could you put up the umbrella? It's starting to rain.
  • She put up the umbrella to shield herself from the sun.
  • I painted it myself and put the little umbrella up.
  • Last week the European Central Bank put up the interest rate.
  • Ensign, put up the shields until further notice.
  • Put up the Carlton Fog surveillance photos from yesterday.
  • The villagers put up the bribe money for your escape.
  • Put up the patient list, Frost.
  • You put up the flag when...
  • Engage the autopilot and put up the security shields.
  • Maybe I should just let them put up the billboards.
  • Good thing they put up the fence.
  • You've got to watch them put up the sign and decorate.
  • I put up the fences to make it safe.
  • Put up the patient list, Frost.
  • His father has put up the family home.
  • We hardly had time to put up the banns.
  • I didn't think they'd put up the sign so early.
  • Now you understand why l've put up the plastic sheets.
  • Everybody joins in to put up the tchum.
  • And whoever put up the money claims that you took his whole heart.
  • I put up the sign "Sewing" at my window.

Alternatives:

  • Raise the umbrella
  • Extend the umbrella

Open the umbrella

This phrase is correct and commonly used to describe the action of expanding the umbrella canopy.

This phrase is used when you want to instruct someone to expand the umbrella canopy to provide shade or protection from the rain.

Examples:

  • Don't forget to open the umbrella before it starts raining.
  • She opened the umbrella to shield herself from the sun.
  • It's bad luck to open umbrellas indoors.
  • Standing under an open umbrella inside, bad luck.
  • One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size with the mushroom, but the umbrella suddenly takes root and transforming itself into a mushroom starts growing attaining gigantic proportions.
  • The rain falls at the bus stop, if there's a drenched creature open your umbrella for it.
  • Lady, even now you still don't even open up a little umbrella...
  • Intake vents for the Umbrella facility.
  • The KBM is the umbrella organisation of machinery rings in Bavaria.
  • WUH/Interadvies is an ING business unit under the umbrella of Nationale Nederlanden Insurance unit.
  • Many rural Protestant churches prefer not to come under the umbrella of the government-approved Lao Evangelical Church.
  • Another factor is the participation of the European Union under the umbrella of other international actors.
  • In my view, all these actions fall under the umbrella of conflict prevention.
  • Retraining under the umbrella of education would be an important measure, too.
  • It is now the umbrella program for all our black ops.
  • Yet I knew from that day with the umbrellas that he would marry Miss Taylor.
  • You didn't lift the umbrella enough.
  • Hold the umbrella just as you did in the verse before.
  • When you start to sing, lay the umbrella across your shoulder.
  • I made a significant expenditure for the umbrella.
  • Despite the apocalypse they had created, the Umbrella Corporation continued to experiment with the deadly virus.
  • You take away the umbrella, he'll use a stick.

Alternatives:

  • Expand the umbrella
  • Unfold the umbrella

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