turn up
— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
(HAPPEN)
informal If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turns up, it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned:
Don't worry about it - something will turn up, you'll see.
This job turned up just when I needed it.
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- I expect a new job will turn up soon.
- We don't have a house at the moment, but I'm sure something will turn up.
- This opportunity turned up at just the right time for me.
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Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- underway
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Opportunity
(FIND)
If something that you have been looking for turns up, you find it unexpectedly:
The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Finding and discovering
- a fishing expedition idiom
- alight
- ascertain
- break fresh/new ground idiom
- breakthrough
- catch sb red-handed idiom
- flush
- get hold of idiom
- get wind of sth idiom
- happen
- happen on/upon sth/sb
- have a (good) nose for sth idiom
- rediscover
- root sth/sb out
- run sb/sth to ground idiom
- scent
- search
- search sth/sb out
- smell
- stumble
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