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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:
- come up
- fall into
- fire up
- hold down
- knock over
- mess around
- mess with
- put down
- run around after
- spread out
- stand up
- stick up
- take away
- turn into
- brown thumb
- carry on
- catch-as-catch-can
- chew the fat
- flea in one's ear
- flutter in the dovecote
- free-for-all
- fresh start
- from a to z
- get a handle on
- get by the balls
- go blue
- gray area
- grunt work
- half a mind
- half-baked
- hustle and bustle
- in heaven's name
- in the nick of time
- keep a close watch on
- lower the boom
- old stick
- out of house and home
- pardon my french
- piffy on a rock bun
- play one's cards right
- pull one's weight
- put together
- quarter past
- raise a stink
- red face test
- run hot and cold
- sack out
- see red
- see someone through
- see yellow
- sell ice to eskimos
- shotgun approach
- slip through the cracks
- small fry
- so much as
- spill one's guts
- sure of oneself
- take a bullet
- take it easy
- take its toll
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