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To come towards, to approach.
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I was standing on the corner when Nick came up and asked for a cigarette.
Submitted on September 01, 2012
More phrases:
- eat out
- fire off
- look out
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- puff out
- pull up
- rub up against
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- take away
- take on
- team up
- turn back
- been to the rodeo
- bring owls to athens
- cut of one's jib
- feather in one's cap
- fit as a fiddle
- from cover to cover
- get it
- get one's claws into
- hammer home
- heart to heart
- honest-to-goodness
- in touch
- it takes two to tango
- keep one on one's toes
- kindred soul
- light up
- lion
- lip service
- look like
- lump in one's throat
- make an honest woman
- make headway
- mind one's own business
- move heaven and earth
- no frills
- object lesson
- oh dark thirty
- out of character
- out of order
- out of the blue
- out of this world
- outside the box
- pachyderm
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