Meanings
- alternativeidiomaticnot comparableAlternative form of onwards and upwards.
This, obviously, has nothing to do with bondage, so now it seems completely unclear why Tim would be associated with it. It sounded good when the story was posted on the Internet, but it was late and your author had spent too many hours in front of the computer that day. Oh well. Onward and upward.
2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 18
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onward and upward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onward%20and%20upward
“onward and upward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onward%20and%20upward. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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