Come
Come verb - To move closer to.
Run up
Run up verb - Pile up (debts or scores).
Both terms in one sentence
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The girls run up against the Ministry of Pain, an elderly team of arch-criminals who have recently come out of retirement.
Source: Stating the Simple Solution -
Because they're so dumb they run up to the speaker every time the camp announcements come on looking for the voice and also can't think at all.
Source: Western Animation / Camp Lazlo -
Similarly, any person who plays Medic will at some point come across a situation where two or more people run up to them while burning or bleeding to death with neither dispenser nor health kit in sight.
Source: Sadistic Choice / Video Games
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