get-up-and-get

A man with any get-up-and-get would have known that all along.

Miss Lulu Bett 1921

"He lives as no Dago ditch-digger with a particle of get-up-and-get in him would be willing to," said Judge Emery finally.

The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

The men have got all the get-up-and-get they want, but they need the women to point them straight, and to show them how to lead that other kind of life that isn't all grind.

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

Lived here all his life and never had the get-up-and-get to go find out?

Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895

The men have got all the get-up-and-get they want, but they need the women to point them straight, and to show them how to lead that other kind of life that isn't all grind.

The Pit Frank Norris 1886

You see, our jail is such a ram-shackle affair that it is next to impossible to keep a prisoner in bonds, if he has any get-up-and-get in his make-up.

Dialect Tales 1883

If he had a little more push and get-up-and-get about him he would succeed better.

The Young Bank Messenger Horatio Alger 1865