Express and Step up

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Express verb - To make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion).

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Step up and express are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Step up" instead a verb "Express".

Step up verb - To make markedly greater in measure or degree.

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Express and step up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Express" instead a verb "Step up".

Could be considered an "express" form of Rescue Romance, and a step up from Smooch of Victory.

Source: Rescue Sex
Step Up 2: If you are an arts school alumni who insists in making your own steps whenever you are being taught some, or to break-dance in the middle of a dramatic swashbuckler scene, the big bad establishment is guilty of not allowing you to express yourself.

Source: Film / Step Up
The Planet Express Ship crew in Futurama is explicitly this to a prior lost crew, and the Professor has convenient replacements in the same roles ready to step up when and if they die.

Source: Convenient Replacement Character

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