Come up and Float

Come up

Come up verb - To come near or nearer.

Float and come up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Float" instead a verb "Come up".

Float

Float verb - To rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air.

Come up and float are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come up" instead a verb "Float".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Moon-Landing Hoax Friends: While at a thanksgiving meal in the "The One With Rachel's Other Sister" episode, Joey realises he was meant to be on a parade float with his fellow Days of Our Lives stars and has difficultly trying to come up with a good excuse as to why he is not there.
  • Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S3 E4 "One Bad Apple" Freudian Slippery Slope: Sweetie Belle calls the Crusaders' float "smashing" and "a hit" and struggles to come up with less suspicious adjectives, though Babs, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon don't catch on.
  • Contrived Coincidence Looking at 30 days in jail if he couldn't come up with the money, King saw no way out — until a check for $250 came in the mail from the men's magazine to which he'd submitted "The Float".
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