come up with
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Verb
editcome up with (third-person singular simple present comes up with, present participle coming up with, simple past came up with, past participle come up with)
- (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
- How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?
- Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend.
- 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
- And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
- 2023, The Eric Andre Show, season 6, episode 3:
- Eric Andre: Were you born black or did you come up with a stage name and get a ton of surgery?
Blac Chyna: I came up with it.
- To reach or overtake.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with.
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editto invent, create
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See also
edit- come across
- come away with
References
edit- “come up with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.