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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adding it up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when summarizing information or calculating totals, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "After reviewing all the expenses, I started adding it up to see if we stayed within budget."
Alternatives: "tallying it up" or "calculating the total".
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"We're still adding it up," he said.
"There are different ways of adding it up," he said.
"I'm not even adding it up, and you know why?" Mrs. O'Neill asked, steering toward the Throgs Neck Expressway.
That's taking any type of research - as esoteric as you like - and adding it up to say: What does that deliver to the economy?
As for that exception, that hopeful possibility, it has come to mean a whole new set of lists, sub-lists and sub-sub-lists in my life: emails, letters, phone-calls, meetings, trips, forms, visits, events, shows, concerts, sales, walks, runs, appeals, reports, requests, applications and then adding it up and starting again.
The staff started adding it up: end all itemized deductions, tax capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, and tax the interest on state and local bonds, along with several other revenue-raisers.
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Add it up and BP looks exposed.
I haven't added it up.
You've got to add it up in your head".
What does that mean?" I said, "Add it up".
Add it up, and more Aussies are working longer.
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