Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Come Up

Marry, come up! (See Marry.) “To come up to” means to equal, to obtain the same number of marks, to amount to the same quantity.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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