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Not settled, uncertain, as in The proposal to build a golf course next to the airport is still up in the air . This metaphoric expression likens something floating in the air to an unsettled matter. Put as in the air from the mid-1700s, it acquired up in the first half of the 1900s.

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"You want to be able to nail someone down and pinpoint who it is that's basically saying, 'We're getting the planes up in the air, and just stonewall the judge,'" Prof Tsai said.

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Andrew Taylor, 55, threw his hands up in the air Monday morning as he walked out of the Social Security office on Wilshire Boulevard.

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The rest of USC’s backcourt remains up in the air, as most of the Trojans’ reserve guards from last season are out of eligibility.

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The ball pops up in the air and soars into an arc, drifting against the blue sky, then comes down with a plunk on the glass wall behind Jon Guerra.

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Pearson: I would be playing piano, and Jeremiah would be walking in, playing a saxophone up in the air.

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