Talk:go above

go above
Doesn't look like a phrasal verb to me. --SimonP45 (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd tend to say keep, but the definition doesn't quite seem right. It specifically means to go a weather deck, right? Like, you wouldn't say a sailor went above if they just went another deck within the hull. Smurrayinchester (talk) 11:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Doesn't it have some implied knowledge? That is, it's used intransitively where it's implied your going on to the deck? Renard Migrant (talk) 12:45, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * We might need a carefully worded nautical sense of above that covered come above, be above, raced above, climbed above, worked above, sulked above and any of the other verb + above combinations that might be attestable, but that would just make it easier to decide to delete. DCDuring TALK 12:48, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, IMO. Regarding the restriction to a "weather deck": if a mine or bunker had multiple levels, "go above" could easily be restricted in some uses to going to the surface, although I would expect to see some use to refer to simply going to any higher level, especially if the level was specified. finds people "going above" to various levels of ships and trains: "Mr. Morris, have your assistant go above to the engine room and keep his eye on Swanson", "I thought I would go above to the deck outside the Captain's cabin", "Dr. Fifer excused himself to go above to the saloon deck", "Cutty had the captain go above to the salon and bring anyone who was fluent in Italian back down below", "you are free to go above, to the poop-deck only", "we were allowed to go above to the main deck", "passengers on the train had to be separated by their tickets into three lines, those to go above to the first-class sleeping salons, those to go into the second-class general salon and those to go down to the third-class deck". "At a quiet spot below deck I tried to write Betty a last letter from Hilo, but finding the heat intolerable, I had to go above to the ward room where it was many degrees cooler." Compare how "go below" refers to going to any lower place, often but not necessarily "below deck" (again pulling from Google Books): "the crew let me to go below to the fo'c'sle", "he would go below to the wardroom" (of a space ship?), "We go below to the messhall and present our trays", "I go below to the forward deck", etc. - -sche (discuss) 16:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete "Above" seems to just be short for abovedeck when it isn't a general direction. One can "hurry above" or "rush above", with the same meaning. It wouldn't surprise me to see "be above", but I haven't been able to find any examples. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:26, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 02:10, 9 January 2016 (UTC)