come up with

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

come 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)

1. (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.

2. To reach or overtake.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come,‎ up,‎ with.

Derived terms

• come up with the goods
• come up with snake eyes

Related terms

• come up short

Translations

to invent, create

• Arabic: جَاءَ بِـ (ar) (jāʔa bi-), أَتَى بِـ (ar) (ʔatā bi-)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 想出 (zh) (xiǎngchū), 提出 (zh) (tíchū)

• Danish: finde på, udtænke
• Dutch: bedenken (nl), verzinnen (nl)
• Estonian: välja mõtlema
• Finnish: keksiä (fi)
• French: inventer (fr), imaginer (fr)
• German: ausdenken (de) (reflex.)
• Icelandic: finna upp
• Italian: ideare (it), escogitare (it), inventare (it)
• Latvian: izdomāt
• Livonian: ulzmõtlõ
• Macedonian: смисли pf (smisli)
• Malagasy: mamorona (mg)
• Polabian: novirgnǫt
• Polish: wymyślić (pl)
• Portuguese: pensar (em), alcançar (pt)
• Russian: придумывать (ru) (pridumyvatʹ), приходить в голову (ru) (prixoditʹ v golovu)
• Slovak: vymyslieť
• Spanish: ingeniarse (es), inventarse (es), inventar (es), idear (es)
• Ukrainian: приду́мувати (prydúmuvaty)

See also

• come across
• come away with

References

• “come up with”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.