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Goldberg gets put up to celebrate wildly (5,2,2)

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I believe the answer is:

whoop it up

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'celebrate wildly' is the definition.
'whoop it up' can be an answer for 'celebrate' (whooping it up is a kind of celebrating). I am unsure of the 'wildly' bit.

'goldberg gets put up' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'goldberg' could be 'whoopi' (actress Whoopi Goldberg) and 'whoopi' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'put' is 'tup' which is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' acts as a link.

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I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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