`up to` as fixed expression

[AngledLuffa]

Found some cases of up to which may need a fixed relation in EWT

Train section:

bundling together cheques of up to $1,000 from friends and family

but not up to the standards that I was told I should expect

the food was not up to par with the price tag

Test:

# text = I'll pay up to 200-250 for it if I have to.

[AngledLuffa]

There is also an incident of down to which looks like a fixed expression:

# text = The horse I had posted about a couple weeks ago with the atrophied cheek muscles is down to his last resort for life.

incidentally, am happy that as a human, we have surgical options other than "shotgun" for deal with atrophied cheek muscles

[nschneid]

https://universaldependencies.org/en/dep/fixed.html#approximators-quantity-modifiers says:

So I think the ones with numbers would qualify. Could you make a PR?

I agree that "down to (his last X)" is a multiword expression but I don't think it has the grammatical status of fixed expressions.

[AngledLuffa]

So, up to $1000 counts as fixed, but not up to the standards or up to par? Or should we could those as well?

What about updog? Is that a fixed or more properly an MWT?

[nschneid]

So, up to $1000 counts as fixed, but not up to the standards or up to par?

Correct

What about updog? Is that a fixed or more properly an MWT?

??

[AngledLuffa]

What about updog? Is that a fixed or more properly an MWT?

??

Not much, what's up with you... wait, that wasn't quite the response needed for that joke to work