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Come up trumps

Dig someone out of a hole, or do something that turns the tide and turns the situation into a success, particularly at the last minute and when unexpected, with all hope lost.
Same as come through for someone in the clutch, only an older phrase, and more precise, better conveying the sense of "in the nick of time", and "unexpected".

Look at it like this- played out action movie scenario: there are three guys fighting. 2 vs 1. One of them gets knocked out cold, and then the guy that knocked him out pulls out a gun and is about to finish off the other guy. Just when he is about to pull the trigger and send him to kingdom come, he gets hit in the head/ shot in the back etc by someone, and we see that someone is the guy who was out cold.

He came up trumps.
My old junker broke down and left me stranded in the middle of nowhere, but this guy came up trumps and gave me a ride.
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This bully started pushing me around, but Daniel came up trumps just when I was about to get my ass kicked big time, and took him down a few pegs.
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Come up

When a person steals some shit they are “coming up
Person: “Bro let’s come up at Burlington and make a profit on offer up”
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So, baby, come light me up

‘So, baby, come light me up’ is a line from Ariana Grande’s song, ‘Into You’, that was released in 2016 as part of her ‘Dangerous Woman’ album.

The iconic line is the first line of ‘Into You’’s chorus.
‘So, baby, come light me up
and, baby, I’ll let you on it.
A little bit dangerous,
but baby that’s how I want it.’
1: I love the chorus of ‘Into You’ by Ariana Grande, man!
2: Yeah! It’s so catchy. ‘So, baby, come light me up, and baby I’ll let you on it…’
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Everything's coming up milhouse!

Words of joy about something insignificant, especially in comparison to how disastrous your situation is.
My train is 3 hours delayed, but I found a spot to sit on the dirty floor. Everything's coming up milhouse!
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come up duff

A person who was a duff in their past and is now a hot glown up masterpiece
Guy 1: Damn heathers a come up duff!
Guy 2: Yah she used to be really ugly but now I really wanna date her
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come-upped

The proper past tense of the word "come up". This is more proper than "comed up" and head and shoulders better than "came up", which only sissies say. Its identical twin opposite is "come downed".

Some spelt without the hypen, though the hypen always exists when verbally spoken.
Recently, the topic come-upped that the earth's magnetic field could be subject to an anomaly, as a result of the aligning of the planets, something that occurs every 26,000 years.
by therealizer August 7, 2018
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A new recipeh is when Ignis from final fantasy busts a nut and makes a recipeh out of dead animals that he just sencelessly murdered for no reason. He will most likely exclaim "That's it!" (busts a nut) "I've come up with a new recipeh!"
His companions have no idea of the busted nut, and just tells him "Love to try it"

Warning; Don't try it. It has most likely a handfull of busted nuts.
Thats it! I've come up with a new recipeh!

Great! Love to try it out!

(tastes)
Busted
by Make some time for a recipeh February 12, 2019
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