turn up
— phrasal verb with turn uk
/tɜːn/ us
/tɝːn/ verb
(HAPPEN)
› informal If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turns up, it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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(FIND)
› If something that you have been looking for turns up, you find it unexpectedly:
The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
- a fishing expedition idiom
- alight
- ascertain
- break fresh/new ground idiom
- breakthrough
- catch sb red-handed idiom
- flush
- get wind of sth idiom
- happen
- happen on/upon sth/sb
- have a (good) nose for sth idiom
- have got something there idiom
- root sth/sb out
- run sb/sth to ground idiom
- search
- search sth/sb out
- smell
- sniff sth out
- stumble
- trace
