Sentence examples for chum up from inspiring English sources

"chum up" is not a correct or usable phrase in written English.
It is an informal idiom that is used in spoken English. Example: Let's chum up and watch a movie together tonight.

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chum up

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To be friendly toward (with) someone, especially in an ingratiating way.

  • I chummed up with a few of my new work colleagues.

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I did not want to do anything that would chum up those shark waters I was already swimming in.

Will he find comfort in Farrow and Ball and chum up with "mole's breath" or "cornforth white" instead?

West Sweden's new Meet the Swedes scheme allows tourists to chum up with friendly locals and benefit from their neighbourhood knowledge.

You contact someone who lives in a nicer place than you do, preferably with a pool and some hummingbirds, chum up with them and then go and stay with them.

Cabin for four from £110 a night, grinda.se West Sweden's new Meet the Swedes scheme allows tourists to chum up with friendly locals and benefit from their neighbourhood knowledge.

The conflict with Georgia earlier this month has led to bad blood between Russia, the U.S. and NATO not seen since the days of the Cold War, and the Syrian president has been keen to chum up to Russia in the hope of snapping up an arms deal.

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(5) After chumming up at the Baftas.

In England or the US she might have found sympathy and chummed up with similarly sleep-deprived, frazzled new mums.

Eventually, she chums up with friendless Death, talking to him about the afterlife, and what will happen to her after she dies.

So it is bad luck for Ajuba that she chums up with Polly Venus, a glamorous child with a predilection for True Murder magazine and dangerous games.

Mr Schröder no longer objects in principle to his party chumming up with the ex-communists; it has already done so in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.

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