come up with
Invent on spot
To come up with something is to produce it through thought or effort—an idea, a plan, a solution, an answer.
The phrase suggests mental work culminating in a result: She came up with a brilliant excuse, We need to come up with the money by Friday.
It implies arriving at something through creativity, resourcefulness, or determination rather than simply finding or receiving it.
- dream upInvent through imagination
- concoctInvent or devise
- conjure upSummon mentally or magically
- brainstormSpontaneous idea generation
- think tankPolicy research organization
blue sky thinking · devise · spark · contrive · conceive · submit · imagine · formulate · brainwave · hit upon · cook up · put forward · spitball · invent · epiphany · think up · suggest · pioneer
creation/generation
come up withdraw a blank
Fail to remember
come up empty · discard · abandon · reject · scrap
come, with, become, coming, withdraw, overcome, update, outcome, output