Come up
Come up verb - To come near or nearer.
Float
Float verb - To rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air.
Both terms in one sentence
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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.
Source: Moon-Landing Hoax -
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.
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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".
Source: Contrived Coincidence
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