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come up
verb
to come to a place regarded as higher
(of the sun) to rise
to begin
a wind came up
to be regurgitated or vomited
to present itself or be discussed
that question will come up again
to begin a term, esp one's first term, at a college or university
to appear from out of the ground
my beans have come up early this year
informalto win
have your premium bonds ever come up?
to be faced with; come into conflict or competition with
to equal or meet a standard
that just doesn't come up to scratch
to produce or find
she always comes up with the right answer
Idioms and Phrases
Arise, present itself, as in This question never came up . [Mid-1800s]
Rise (from a lower place to a higher one) as in We'll leave as soon as the sun comes up . [9th century]
Also, come up to . Approach, come near, as in He came up and said hello , or The dog came right up to Nora . [Early 1700s]
Also, come up to . Rise in status or value, be equal to, as in His paintings will never come up to his teacher's , or This officer came up through the ranks . [c. 1600] A variant is , used for someone who has risen in rank, wealth, or status; for example, He has really come up in the world—he now owns a yacht , or I could see at once that she was a woman who would rise in the world . Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with come up .
Example Sentences
She writes during her downtime making “Godzilla x Kong” — there’s a lot of downtime on a movie like that — and has come up with seven or eight songs, each playing off core memories.
As the clock ticked down, Bulls captain Ruan Nortje spilled the ball with space ahead of him and promptly came up lame with cramp to sum up his side's disappointing day.
It intervenes if people are uncivil to each other, and it guides people in coming up with the key questions that they want to ask panels of competing experts who represent different points of view.
But I came up in broadcast television, and the idea that you’ve created this thing and it’s a story that you’ve experienced over time, and then people are like two days and done, it just —
They say they were told that it had come up for sale because the previous owner had died.
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