PROs and CONs

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Dear Teachers,1. Don't be so negative about it, but don't get too worked up over it either.- "get too worked up over it" means "get mad at it too much", right?2. You know enough about each other, pros and cons - to know that when you do say "yes" when you ask each other out, that you are "sure".- What do "pros" and "cons" stand for?Thanks a million to Teachers, Stevenukd.

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work up

1. To arouse the emotions of; excite.

2. a. To increase one's skill, responsibility, efficiency, or status through work: worked up to 30 sit-ups a day; worked up to store manager. b. To intensify gradually: The film works up to a thrilling climax.

3. To develop or produce by mental or physical effort: worked up a patient profile; worked up an appetite.

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

In the context of your text, “get too worked up” => get too excited about it, get too aroused about it, go overboard with emotions about it

Pros => for

Cons => against

pros and cons => Arguments or considerations for and against something, as in We'd best weigh all the pros and cons before we decide to add a new wing to the library. This idiom is taken from the Latin pro for "for" and con for "against." [Late 1500s]

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