Stand down and Sit up.

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

For ESL learners,

Most of us know stand up and sit down, but most of us don't know stand down and sit up. Now you know?

Noun
1. stand-down - a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness
abeyance, suspension - temporary cessation or suspension
2. stand-down - (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action

standdown

stop, stoppage - the act of stopping something;
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation;
"their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

sit up
1. To rise from lying down to a sitting position.
2. To sit with the spine erect.
3. To stay up later than the customary bedtime.
4. To become suddenly alert: The students sat up when he mentioned the test.

kind regards.

[Bwriter]

Ha - I didn't know this! I will have to use these words somewhere to confuse my friends :) Maybe this will make them open the dictionary and look for the explanation instead of playing computer games...

[Mr. Kyaw Min Lwin]

Thank you very much. And you have a really very positive attitude on your friends as well. Computer games can spoil a man when reading makes a full man.
Perhaps reading makes a rich man who later runs the computer game shops.
I hope game programmers won't mind me.

Let's read first? And play later!

When we're rich we can play all types of games apart from computer games.

kind regards.