Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) at the highest level, very successful.

1937		J. O’Hara ‘By Way of Yonkers’ in New Yorker 27 Feb. 28/3: ‘[T]he other day I ran into an old pal of mine. [...] I did him a couple good turns in the old days and now he’s right up there’.
1943		W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 175: ‘I really pulled one this time, didn’t I? I even went Tom Rodney one better. He never married over a million bucks.’ ‘Who did? No racketman that I ever heard of. You’re sure up there’.