Talk You Up

[Mark Mandel]

This looks like a new case of V + up 'create or summon by V-ing'.
Cf. "conjure up", "work up" (a proposal, etc.), "make up" (a story, etc.).

Mark Mandel


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Gerald Walton <gww at olemiss.edu> wrote:
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> Yesterday, while it was raining hard, I told people at an automobile
> parts store I would return this morning for a battery. When I got to
> the place today, a young woman said, "Well, we talked you up." I
> asked the meaning, and she said, "Well, about fifteen minutes John
> asked me whether that man had returned, and now here you are."
> GWW
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