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dream up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to invent by ingenuity and imagination

    to dream up an excuse for leaving

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Idioms and Phrases

Invent, concoct, as in Count on her to dream up some explanation for her absence . This expression replaced the somewhat earlier dream out . [c. 1940]
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The version they dreamed up — alongside Perez — was a series that uses each episode to tackle a different Hollywood mini-issue through the eyes of the perpetually stressed Matt.

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Thanks to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a name George Orwell would have been proud to dream up, the country now finds itself mired in a legal morass that could last years.

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Perhaps it is human nature - that your own arm's length bodies don't feel as pernicious as ones dreamt up by a predecessor.

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Nava similarly turned to a series of 17th and 18th century Maya texts to dream up different kinds of symbolism that would lend the film a distinct kind of texture.

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The Grand Inga Dam enticed investors and developers but decades after it was first dreamt up, the site reserved for the structure remains untouched.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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