come up

Meaning

1. Editorial55% of films

   to move to a higher place or upstairs, often toward where the speaker is

2. Oxford20% of films

   to happen

3. Oxford15% of films

   to be mentioned or discussed

4. Oxford5% of films

   to appear above the soil

In the movies · 329

• There was barbed wire, and this German came up to me.The Pianist2002
• Well, I was out by myself, and she came up to me.Dracula1958
• Presently he came up to me.Brief Encounter1945
• David, come up here.Cha Cha Real Smooth2022
• Come up, come up!Song of the Sea2014
• Can you come up?The Woman in the Window2021
• May we come up?V for Vendetta2006
• Watched the sun come up.The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent2022

Learn it in full scenes

• V for Vendetta2006
  • V's Opening Monologue
  • V Introduces Himself to Evey
  • Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion

From the same entry

• be as clever, stupid, as they come
• come again
• come and go
• come easily, naturally, to
• come over faint, dizzy, giddy
• come the
• come to nothing
• come to that
• come what may
• how come
• not come to much
• to come

More phrasal verbs

• go out
• listen up
• start out
• break into
• get off
• take after
• settle for
• fall out
• hang up on
• catch up with
• be cut out for
• sit up