British Slang: Knees up

Knees up:

A lively party or dance.

Vocabulary meanings from the English-Bulgarian dictionary:

Knee [ni:] – knee.

Up [ʌp] – up, higher, above.

Examples:

On the night their exam results came out, they went down to the pub for a right old knees up.

We had a bit of a knees-up last night.

The expression originates from the song 'Knees Up Mother Brown' from the 1930s.

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