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Come Up
Marry, come up! (See Marry.) “To come up to” means to
equal, to obtain the same number of marks, to amount to the same
quantity.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Come Up from Infoplease:
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