strike up
verb1
Idiomatic To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
- To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.
- He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years.
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- He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
- The band struck up and everyone started to dance.
- The bride entered the church just as the "Wedding March" struck up.
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- Strike vp the Drum and martch corragiouſly, Fortune her ſelfe dooth ſit vpon our Creſts.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
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To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.