Sentence examples for tapping up from inspiring English sources
noun
Making an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer.
Land Securities did, however, join the growing list of companies tapping up investors for more cash.
The masseuse then started on the feet, tapping up my thighs, before massaging in warm herbal oils.
What could be more normal, more folksy, more grounded and everyday than tapping up and down some stairs?
Whether tapping up an angry thunder with his rings on the chessboard, or haughty in the saddle, he's all man.
And the commonplace nature of tapping up did not justify it, said Mick Dennis in the Daily Express.
(It can, presumably, only add grist to the mill of the current inquiry into the tapping-up of Ashley Cole.
The last threads of Cole's already frayed relationship with the club are said to have been snapped by the Premier League "tapping-up" inquiry.
Meulensteen incensed West Ham by suggesting that Morrison wanted to come to Craven Cottage and the Premier League was asked to arbitrate over a tapping-up row.
It resulted in a £45,000 fine and, as tapping-up goes, it was of a very different nature to a couple of strategically placed sentences in the newspapers.
United have been involved in several tapping-up controversies in the past and could be seen as opening themselves to allegations of double standards by expressing their dissatisfaction with the process.
