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come up to

Idioms  
  1. see come up, def. 3 and 4.


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With “Digger,” Iñárritu commands — to quote “Real Housewives of New York” alum Kelly Bensimon — “You come up to me; I don’t go down to you.”

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"People will come up to us at conferences and state that you can't target the mitochondria because they're too important," said Gibson.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Normally when I film the white sharks around humans, they will come up to a human, figure out it’s a human and then leave,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Parents often come up to Pearce after shows saying that they wish they had thought of the idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Harry reached down to pet the little white and brown, beagle-y-eared-looking dog that’d come up to sniff her leg.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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